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March 18, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea being declared a Christian nation may offer the impression that the country will improve, but it is only “an illusion”, according to a Catholic priest in the country. Last week, the PNG Parliament amended the nation’s constitution, introducing a declaration in its preamble: “(We) acknowledge and ... <a title="Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/18/catholic-priest-calls-pngs-christian-state-declaration-cosmetic-change/" aria-label="Read more about Catholic priest calls PNG’s Christian state declaration ‘cosmetic’ change">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A national Palestinian advocacy group has called on the Aotearoa New Zealand government to immediately condemn Israel for its resumption today of “genocidal attacks” on the almost 2 million Palestinians trapped in the besieged Gaza enclave. Media reports said that more than 230 people had been killed — many of them children ... <a title="PSNA calls on NZ govt to condemn renewed Israel air strikes on Gaza – 230 killed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/18/psna-calls-on-nz-govt-to-condemn-renewed-israel-air-strikes-on-gaza-230-killed/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA calls on NZ govt to condemn renewed Israel air strikes on Gaza – 230 killed">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Robert Patman New Zealand’s National-led coalition government’s policy on Gaza seems caught between a desire for a two-state diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and closer alignment with the US, which supports a Netanyahu government strongly opposed to a Palestinian state In the last 17 months, Gaza has been the scene of what ... <a title="New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/18/new-zealand-and-gaza-confronting-and-not-confronting-the-unspeakable/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2025
Columbia Journalism School Freedom of the press — a bedrock principle of American democracy — is under threat in the United States. Here at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism we are witnessing and experiencing an alarming chill. We write to affirm our commitment to supporting and exercising First Amendment rights for students, faculty, and ... <a title="Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/18/free-press-under-threat-in-us-columbia-j-school-speaks-out/" aria-label="Read more about Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A former US diplomat, Nabeel Khoury, says President Donald Trump’s decision to launch attacks against the Houthis is misguided, and this will not subdue them. “For our president who came in wanting to avoid war and wanting to be a man of peace, he’s going about it the wrong way,” he said. ... <a title="Former US envoy slams air attacks on Houthis – NZ protesters recite poetry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/16/former-us-envoy-slams-air-attacks-on-houthis-nz-protesters-recite-poetry/" aria-label="Read more about Former US envoy slams air attacks on Houthis – NZ protesters recite poetry">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2025
By Mar-Vic Cagurangan in Hagatna, Guam Debate on Guam’s future as a US territory has intensified with its legislature due to vote on a non-binding resolution to become a US state amid mounting Pacific geostrategic tensions and expansionist declarations by the Trump administration. Located closer to Beijing than Hawai’i, Guam serves as a key US ... <a title="Guam at decolonisation ‘crossroads’ with resolution on US statehood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/16/guam-at-decolonisation-crossroads-with-resolution-on-us-statehood/" aria-label="Read more about Guam at decolonisation ‘crossroads’ with resolution on US statehood">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro The late Member of Parliament Jeton Anjain and the people of the nuclear test-affected Rongelap Atoll changed the course of the history of the Marshall Islands by using Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior ship to evacuate their radioactive home islands ... <a title="Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/15/marshall-islands-how-the-rongelap-evacuation-changed-the-course-of-history/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An open letter signed by 100 Christian leaders, calling for the granting of humanitarian visas to Aotearoa New Zealand for families of Palestinians trapped in Gaza has been handed over on the steps of Parliament. The letter was presented yesterday on Ash Wednesday to opposition Labour Party MP Phil Twyford, who was ... <a title="100 Christian leaders’ open letter calls for NZ humanitarian visas for trapped Gaza families" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/100-christian-leaders-open-letter-calls-for-nz-humanitarian-visas-for-trapped-gaza-families/" aria-label="Read more about 100 Christian leaders’ open letter calls for NZ humanitarian visas for trapped Gaza families">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has launched an open letter calling on the Aotearoa New Zealand government to take action on the future of the besieged enclave of Gaza. The network is asking Foreign Minister Winston Peters to speak up for the people of New Zealand to at least condemn Israel’s ... <a title="PSNA open letter calls for NZ to condemn Israel’s ‘weaponisation’ of Gaza humanitarian aid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/psna-open-letter-calls-for-nz-to-condemn-israels-weaponisation-of-gaza-humanitarian-aid/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA open letter calls for NZ to condemn Israel’s ‘weaponisation’ of Gaza humanitarian aid">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
By Reza Azam of Greenpeace Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has arrived back in the Marshall Islands yesterday for a six-week mission around the Pacific nation to support independent scientific research into the impact of decades-long nuclear weapons testing by the US government. Forty years ago in May 1985, its namesake, the original Rainbow Warrior, took ... <a title="Rainbow Warrior back in Marshall Islands on nuclear justice mission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/rainbow-warrior-back-in-marshall-islands-on-nuclear-justice-mission/" aria-label="Read more about Rainbow Warrior back in Marshall Islands on nuclear justice mission">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Hamas has accused Israel of “cheap and unacceptable blackmail” over its decision to halt the electricity supply to war-ravaged Palestinian enclave of Gaza to pressure the group into releasing the captives. “We strongly condemn the occupation’s decision to cut off electricity to Gaza, after depriving it of food, medicine, and water,” Izzat ... <a title="Hamas accuses Israel of ‘cheap blackmail’ as Gaza electricity cut-off widely condemned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/10/hamas-accuses-israel-of-cheap-blackmail-as-gaza-electricity-cut-off-widely-condemned/" aria-label="Read more about Hamas accuses Israel of ‘cheap blackmail’ as Gaza electricity cut-off widely condemned">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2025
By Mary Merkenich in Naarm/Melbourne More than 2000 people — mostly women and union members — marked International Women’s Day two days early last week on March 6 with a lively rally and march in Melbourne, capital of the Australian state of Victoria. Chants of “Women united will never be defeated”, “Tell me what a ... <a title="Thousands in Melbourne rally for International Women’s Day, Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/10/thousands-in-melbourne-rally-for-international-womens-day-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands in Melbourne rally for International Women’s Day, Gaza">Read more</a>
