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November 26, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The global civil society alliance Civicus has called on eight Pacific governments to do more to respect civic freedoms and strengthen institutions to protect these rights. It is especially concerned over the threats to press freedom, the use of laws to criminalise online expression, and failure to establish national human rights institutions ... <a title="Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/civicus-raps-8-pacific-countries-for-not-doing-enough-to-protect-civic-rights-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The state of civic space in Indonesia has been rated as “obstructed” in the latest CIVICUS Monitor report. The civic space watchdog said that ongoing concerns include the arrest, harassment and criminalisation of human rights defenders and journalists as well as physical and digital attacks, the use of defamation laws to silence ... <a title="Crackdown on activists, free expression in Papua as Indonesia eyes UN Human Rights role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/crackdown-on-activists-free-expression-in-papua-as-indonesia-eyes-un-human-rights-role/" aria-label="Read more about Crackdown on activists, free expression in Papua as Indonesia eyes UN Human Rights role">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2023
Asia Pacific Report A global alliance of civil society organisations has protested to Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in an open letter over the “judicial harassment” of human rights defenders and the designation of five indigenous rights activists as “terrorists“. CIVICUS, representing some 15,000 members in 75 countries, says the harassment is putting the ... <a title="CIVICUS protests to Marcos over ‘judicial harassment’, ‘terrorist’ label on human rights activists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/28/civicus-protests-to-marcos-over-judicial-harassment-terrorist-label-on-human-rights-activists/" aria-label="Read more about CIVICUS protests to Marcos over ‘judicial harassment’, ‘terrorist’ label on human rights activists">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Amnesty International and Civicus have called on the Fiji government to drop contempt of court charges against a lawyer in Fiji for exercising his right to freedom of expression. On 27 June 2022, Fiji’s Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum filed charges for contempt of court against senior lawyer and former journalist Richard Naidu ... <a title="Amnesty, Civicus condemn Fiji spelling mistake contempt lawsuit as ‘violation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/10/amnesty-civicus-condemn-fiji-spelling-mistake-contempt-lawsuit-as-violation/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty, Civicus condemn Fiji spelling mistake contempt lawsuit as ‘violation’">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk As world leaders meet in Glasgow for the UN Climate Summit (COP26), peaceful environmental activists are being threatened, silenced and criminalised around the world. The host nation Scotland for this year’s meeting is one of many countries where activists are regularly facing rights violations. New research from the CIVICUS Monitor looks ... <a title="Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/10/crackdown-on-environmental-activism-as-climate-crisis-worsens-says-report/" aria-label="Read more about Crackdown on environmental activism as climate crisis worsens, says report">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2021
Women journalists, feminists, activists, and human rights defenders around the world are facing virtual harassment. In this series, global civil society alliance CIVICUS highlights the gendered nature of virtual harassment through the stories of women working to defend our democratic freedoms. Today’s testimony on International Women’s Day is published here through a partnership between CIVICUS ... <a title="For this Filipina journalist, every day is a battle with fear – and defying silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/09/for-this-filipina-journalist-every-day-is-a-battle-with-fear-and-defying-silence/" aria-label="Read more about For this Filipina journalist, every day is a battle with fear – and defying silence">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of the Pacific Media Centre Australian authorities’ heavy-handedness and the use of the covid-19 pandemic to curb civic and media freedoms are major concerns in the latest report, People Power Under Attack 2020, released by the international non-profit organisation CIVICUS. Australia was downgraded last year (2019) and is still rated as having ... <a title="CIVICUS criticises Pacific countries over use of covid to curb freedoms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/civicus-criticises-pacific-countries-over-use-of-covid-to-curb-freedoms/" aria-label="Read more about CIVICUS criticises Pacific countries over use of covid to curb freedoms">Read more</a>
