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April 23, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Pacific Elders’ Voice has expressed deep concern about reports of deteriorating human rights in West Papua and has appealed to Indonesia to allow the proposed UN high commissioner’s visit there before the Bali G20 meeting in November. A statement from the PEV says the reports suggest an “increased number of ... <a title="Pacific Elders call on Indonesia to allow UN visit to Papua before Bali" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/23/pacific-elders-call-on-indonesia-to-allow-un-visit-to-papua-before-bali/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Elders call on Indonesia to allow UN visit to Papua before Bali">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mong Palatino In Papua New Guinea, some already disenfranchised women have to face an added burden of sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV). However, a global initiative by the United Nations with support from the European Union has recently conducted a consultation on a proposed Human Rights Defenders Protection bill aimed at supporting groups ... <a title="Sorcery accusation-related violence still plagues Papua New Guinea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/20/sorcery-accusation-related-violence-still-plagues-papua-new-guinea/" aria-label="Read more about Sorcery accusation-related violence still plagues Papua New Guinea">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2022
RNZ News The long-serving New Zealand MP Louisa Wall has fired a broadside at her own Labour Party as she leaves Parliament to take up a Pacific diplomacy role — using her valedictory speech to accuse the party president of leading a corrupt process. Wall is leaving politics after 14 years — citing a legal ... <a title="Departing Labour MP Louisa Wall: ‘This was not entirely my choice’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/15/departing-labour-mp-louisa-wall-this-was-not-entirely-my-choice/" aria-label="Read more about Departing Labour MP Louisa Wall: ‘This was not entirely my choice’">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2022
By Eleisha Foon and Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalists Māori and Pasifika female rugby players and advocates are asking to not be an afterthought. Māori/Pasifika community rugby representative Chantal Bakersmith said the latest New Zealand Rugby (NZR) report highlighting issues surrounding the treatment of Black Ferns players was not surprising. A scathing review released this ... <a title="Damning Black Ferns rugby report not a surprise to anyone, say critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/15/damning-black-ferns-rugby-report-not-a-surprise-to-anyone-say-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Damning Black Ferns rugby report not a surprise to anyone, say critics">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says it will not give up on the gains made in terms of decolonisation from France under the 1998 Noumea Accord. Party president Daniel Goa made the statement in an address at the party congress in the north of the main island Grande Terre at the weekend, outlining ... <a title="Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/06/caledonian-union-vows-to-end-french-neo-colonial-putsch-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe had an hour-long meeting with Russian Ambassador Lyudmila Vorobyeva, accompanied by the director of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Jakarta this week. On the table, an invitation for President Vladimir Putin to visit Papua later this year. The governor also had his small team ... <a title="Why Governor Lukas Enembe is inviting Russia’s Putin to Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/why-governor-lukas-enembe-is-inviting-russias-putin-to-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Why Governor Lukas Enembe is inviting Russia’s Putin to Papua">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
National Māori Authority chair Matthew Tukaki has seen plenty of protests and received his fair share of abuse, but what’s been happening in Wellington this week is like nothing he has encountered before. Justin Latif reports for Local Democracy Reporting. If there’s one thing Matthew Tukaki thought he and the protesters at Parliament might agree ... <a title="Facing up to anti-mandate protesters at Parliament – the brutal reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/facing-up-to-anti-mandate-protesters-at-parliament-the-brutal-reality/" aria-label="Read more about Facing up to anti-mandate protesters at Parliament – the brutal reality">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
RNZ News Wellington iwi leaders have called for an end to Aotearoa New Zealand’s 10-day-old anti-covid mandates protest in Parliament grounds and condemned comparisons made by protesters to the 1881 colonial assault at Parihaka. The parliament complex and surrounding streets form part of the historic Pipitea Pā. Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust chairperson Kara Puketapu-Dentice ... <a title="Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in Parliament grounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/maori-iwi-leaders-call-for-an-end-to-nzs-protest-in-parliament-grounds/" aria-label="Read more about Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in Parliament grounds">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya in Brisbane Google images of a country or region can offer a wealth of information about the people and cultures that live there. Some images accurately portray reality while others present camouflage, attempting to deceive or twist our perception. From a marketing standpoint, it’s all about selling the national identity, brands ... <a title="How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/16/how-google-moulds-public-opinion-on-west-papua-disrupts-education/" aria-label="Read more about How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University We woke to the news yesterday that the Australian government has negotiated with the designer of the Aboriginal flag Harold Thomas, and copyright for the flag will be transferred to the Commonwealth. The government has now stated the flag is freely available for public use. Prime Minister Scott Morrison ... <a title="Don’t say the Aboriginal flag was ‘freed’ – it belongs to us, not the Commonwealth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/27/dont-say-the-aboriginal-flag-was-freed-it-belongs-to-us-not-the-commonwealth/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t say the Aboriginal flag was ‘freed’ – it belongs to us, not the Commonwealth">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2022
By Mark Talia in Port Moresby “Enough is enough,” is the impassioned plea of the women, mothers and daughters of Papua New Guinea, says Mea Isaac, women’s representative in the Motu-Koitabu Assembly. She has called for all forms of violence, abuse and discrimination against women to stop in the wake of the latest case of ... <a title="‘Enough is enough’, say PNG women over gender crimes by ‘callous men’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/12/enough-is-enough-say-png-women-over-gender-crimes-by-callous-men/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Enough is enough’, say PNG women over gender crimes by ‘callous men’">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2022
By Rappler National Artist for Literature F Sionil Jose has died in the Philippines. He was 97. His death was announced by the Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists) in a Facebook post. According to the post, Jose was declared dead at 9:30 pm last evening at the Makati Medical Center, where ... <a title="Filipino national artist, critic and columnist F Sionil Jose dies at 97" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/10/filipino-national-artist-critic-and-columnist-f-sionil-jose-dies-at-97/" aria-label="Read more about Filipino national artist, critic and columnist F Sionil Jose dies at 97">Read more</a>