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October 9, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, Fred Albert, Sue Berman and Justine Sachs of the Alternative Jewish Voices (NZ) Hamas has responded to Israel’s escalating violence with an unprecedented attack. This is not a new tragedy; it is an extension of the same old cycle. We grieve all the losses of this calamity, and we call on ... <a title="Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating, immediate violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/09/gaza-blockade-hamass-tragic-attack-a-response-to-longterm-and-escalating-immediate-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza blockade: Hamas’s tragic attack a response to longterm and escalating, immediate violence">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller – The Democracy Project. The weekend’s surprise and brutal attack on Israel by Hamas fighters has the potential to reshape the Middle East – and will only further increase global geopolitical instability. As of Sunday night NZT, the initial 24 hours of the assault by Hamas on Israel had already taken ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller – How will New Zealand handle the new war in the Middle East?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/09/geoffrey-miller-how-will-new-zealand-handle-the-new-war-in-the-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller – How will New Zealand handle the new war in the Middle East?">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
COMMENTARY: By John Minto The Hamas attack on Israel yesterday has brought the usual round of systemic misreporting by New Zealand news outlets as they repost stories from the BBC, AP and Reuters which bend the truth in favour of Israeli narratives of “terrorism” and “victimhood”. The worst comes from the BBC which is dutifully ... <a title="John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and Palestinian resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/john-minto-systemic-nz-misreporting-on-israeli-occupation-of-palestine-and-palestinian-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and Palestinian resistance">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi — an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years — has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her “fight against the oppression of women in Iran,” her courage and determination. Persecuted by the Iranian authorities since the late 1990s ... <a title="RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/rsf-hails-decision-to-award-nobel-peace-prize-to-iranian-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The New Zealand government bears heavy responsibility for loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis in the latest fighting in Israel/Palestine and must revisit its policy, says the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair John Minto. “Whatever the eventual outcome of the Hamas attacks on Israel today [Saturday], the New Zealand ... <a title="Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy over brutal Israeli occupation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/palestine-solidarity-group-calls-on-nz-to-end-blind-eye-policy-over-brutal-israeli-occupation/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy over brutal Israeli occupation">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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October 6, 2023
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s government has appealed to the Australian Federal Police and the Singapore Police to assist PNG police to link money laundering trails. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister James Marape said Australia and Singapore had been the major hub of transit for possible money laundering activities. He ... <a title="Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/marape-seeks-help-from-australia-singapore-to-fight-png-corruption/" aria-label="Read more about Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Pacific Media Watch New Caledonia’s daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes is back six months after it closed — but with a big difference. It is online only and free, almost. The return of the news outlet which had been an institution for half a century is welcomed in many quarters, but some local mayors would ... <a title="Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/noumeas-newspaper-les-nouvelles-is-back-free-and-online-only/" aria-label="Read more about Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
RNZ News The Algerian democracy advocate Ahmed Zaoui, a New Zealand citizen, has been arrested by Algerian security forces after commenting on human rights violations at a political meeting at his home. His New Zealand lawyer Deborah Manning said Zaoui had been detained at a police station in the city of Medea since he was ... <a title="Ahmed Zaoui detained in Algeria for democracy statements, lawyer says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/ahmed-zaoui-detained-in-algeria-for-democracy-statements-lawyer-says/" aria-label="Read more about Ahmed Zaoui detained in Algeria for democracy statements, lawyer says">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
RNZ Report: The Algerian democracy activist Ahmed Zaoui, a New Zealand citizen, has been arrested by Algerian security forces after commenting on human rights violations at a political meeting at his home.
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October 5, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French desk correspondent After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week’s French Polynesia sitting of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation (C-24) — but the French delegate did not deliver the message that pro-independence French Polynesian groups wanted to hear. French Polynesia was re-inscribed to the ... <a title="France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/france-ends-10-year-un-empty-chair-decolonisation-snub-over-polynesia/" aria-label="Read more about France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart looks rather noisy, and so it should. Life and death are messy, and subject to random variations. But this chart, for females, and those that follow, are important charts. It’s worth looking through the ‘random noise’. These charts suggest that the cliché ‘we are all living longer’ is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Mortality Increases in New Zealand, by Generation and Sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-mortality-increases-in-new-zealand-by-generation-and-sex/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Mortality Increases in New Zealand, by Generation and Sex">Read more</a>
