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July 21, 2022
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s Ombudsman Luamanuvao Katalaina Sapolu says the human rights effects from the covid-19 pandemic have been catastrophic. She has just submitted Samoa’s eighth State of Human Rights Report to Parliament. Luamanuvao said that over the past two years families had lost loved ones, businesses suffered, unemployment rates increased, and freedom of movement was ... <a title="Pandemic effect on human rights ‘catastrophic’, says Samoan report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/21/pandemic-effect-on-human-rights-catastrophic-says-samoan-report/" aria-label="Read more about Pandemic effect on human rights ‘catastrophic’, says Samoan report">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2022
The University of South Pacific’s vice-chancellor says Fiji’s failure to pay its grant contribution for the third year in a row is affecting the regional university’s operations and students, reports ABC’s Pacific Beat. The Fiji government has refused to pay its grant since 2019 and did not allocate funding for its USP grant in the ... <a title="USP forced to cut costs as Fiji still refuses to pay grant for third year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/21/usp-forced-to-cut-costs-as-fiji-still-refuses-to-pay-grant-for-third-year/" aria-label="Read more about USP forced to cut costs as Fiji still refuses to pay grant for third year">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning has fired the first warning shot in the hunt for candidates who were involved in disrupting the national elections in Enga province. He is deploying a multipolice and army taskforce to hunt down 15 suspected candidates to bring them to justice ... <a title="PNG police taskforce to hunt down 15 candidate suspects over Enga crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/png-police-taskforce-to-hunt-down-15-candidate-suspects-over-enga-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police taskforce to hunt down 15 candidate suspects over Enga crisis">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2022
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva Climate change remains the single greatest existential threat facing the Blue Pacific, as leaders concluded the biggest diplomatic regional meeting in Suva last week with a plea for the world to take urgent action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. While renewed commitments by Australia to reduce its carbon ... <a title="Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/pacific-leaders-call-on-world-to-take-urgent-climate-action-for-island-regions-survival/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2022
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer Covid has now killed around 1700 people in New Zealand, but much of our news reporting and commentary has focused on how we’re moving on from the pandemic. Why is there such a mismatch between that media coverage, and the reality of a virus that’s inflicting more suffering and death than ever before? ... <a title="Sick and tired of the sickness – some media try to downplay the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/sick-and-tired-of-the-sickness-some-media-try-to-downplay-the-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Sick and tired of the sickness – some media try to downplay the pandemic">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2022
By Reiner Brabar in Jayapura Papua People’s Petition (PRP) protesters have braved brutal police blockades, forced dispersals and assaults while staging simultaneous mass actions across Papua. The actions were held on Thursday to demonstrate the people’s opposition to revisions of the Special Autonomy Law on Papua (Otsus), the creation of new autonomous regions (DOB) and ... <a title="Papua People’s Petition protesters hold rallies against new Papuan provinces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/17/papua-peoples-petition-protesters-hold-rallies-against-new-papuan-provinces/" aria-label="Read more about Papua People’s Petition protesters hold rallies against new Papuan provinces">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2022
RNZ Pacific A state of emergency has been declared in American Samoa because of severe weather conditions resulting in damage to roads, infrastructure, property, and coastal villages. American Samoa Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga declared the state of emergency after homes, the school and church on Aunu’u island were swamped by huge waves, the building housing ... <a title="American Samoa declares state of emergency over severe storms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/17/american-samoa-declares-state-of-emergency-over-severe-storms/" aria-label="Read more about American Samoa declares state of emergency over severe storms">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Megan Darby, editor of Climate Home News When it comes to the world’s two biggest emitters, we are caught between a secretive autocracy and an oversharing corrupted democracy. Most media attention is focused on the latter. The United States this week raised hopes of a compromise climate spending bill and quashed it again ... <a title="Climate rivalry between secretive autocracy and corrupted democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/17/climate-rivalry-between-secretive-autocracy-and-corrupted-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Climate rivalry between secretive autocracy and corrupted democracy">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2022
RNZ Pacific The media has been taken to task for doom-laden climate crisis presentations in a speech at an international workshop — and told to tell the full story. Former Marshall Islands president Hilda Heine made the comments as the keynote speaker at the recent East West Centre’s international media conference in Hawai’i. She said ... <a title="Media warned over ‘doom-laden’ climate change narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/16/media-warned-over-doom-laden-climate-change-narrative/" aria-label="Read more about Media warned over ‘doom-laden’ climate change narrative">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
By Rusiate Baleilevuka in Suva A Fiji women’s advocacy group has condemned their government for remaining silent over the human rights violations in West Papua amid the Pacific Islands Forum being hosted by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainmarama this week. Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) coordinator Shamima Ali with other staff members and activists made the ... <a title="Fiji women condemn Bainimarama government’s ‘silence’ on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/fiji-women-condemn-bainimarama-governments-silence-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji women condemn Bainimarama government’s ‘silence’ on West Papua">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
RNZ Pacific The Pacific Islands Forum has launched a new longterm strategy to address present and future challenges faced by Pacific peoples. The “2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent” was endorsed by regional heads of governments as the curtains fell on the 51st Forum Leaders’ summit in Suva. “As Pacific leaders, our vision is ... <a title="Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/pacific-islands-forum-launches-new-2050-strategic-blueprint/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2022
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva “Bring it on!” That’s the challenge from National Federation Party (NFP) general-secretary Seni Nabou to FijiFirst party general-secretary Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum in the wake of a complaint he made to Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem about a video by a New Zealand-based NFP supporter. Nabou claimed the video was extracted from ... <a title="NFP party chief’s challenge to FijiFirst over election complaint – ‘bring it on!’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/14/nfp-party-chiefs-challenge-to-fijifirst-over-election-complaint-bring-it-on/" aria-label="Read more about NFP party chief’s challenge to FijiFirst over election complaint – ‘bring it on!’">Read more</a>
