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August 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Steven Ratuva The frequent detention and questioning of some of Fiji’s political leaders by the police late last month for merely engaging in public debate on the contentious iTaukei Land Trust Bill No. 17 has raised questions about Fiji’s claim to be a champion of human rights. All this has happened when the ... <a title="Steven Ratuva: Repression not the answer to Fiji’s political dilemma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/10/steven-ratuva-repression-not-the-answer-to-fijis-political-dilemma/" aria-label="Read more about Steven Ratuva: Repression not the answer to Fiji’s political dilemma">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2021
By Bernadette Carreon of Pacific Island Times Four Micronesian leaders skipped the Pacific Islands Forum’s 51st virtual session yesterday, in a continuing protest over the organisation’s refusal to assign the leadership post to the subregion as previously agreed. Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama’s official apology proved not convincing enough to break the impasse and appease ... <a title="Micronesian leaders boycott Forum, stand firm on plan to leave bloc" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/07/micronesian-leaders-boycott-forum-stand-firm-on-plan-to-leave-bloc/" aria-label="Read more about Micronesian leaders boycott Forum, stand firm on plan to leave bloc">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2021
By Pita Ligaiula of Pacnews in Suva Fiji’s Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama used his inaugural speech as the new chair of the Pacific Islands Forum to offer an apology to the Micronesian members of the Pacific grouping who were angered by the way the Forum rejected their nominee for the Forum Secretary-General’s job. “I offer ... <a title="‘We’re sorry,’ Pacific Forum chair tells Micronesia over SG post" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/06/were-sorry-pacific-forum-chair-tells-micronesia-over-sg-post/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re sorry,’ Pacific Forum chair tells Micronesia over SG post">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2021
COMMENT: By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom Apologies are, more or less by custom, the end of things. Say sorry, and don’t mention it again. As warm and moving as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s apology was over the immigration Dawn Raids of the 1970s, it will mostly fade away. At the function, ... <a title="Michael Field: On saying sorry – who next? The Banabans?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/02/michael-field-on-saying-sorry-who-next-the-banabans/" aria-label="Read more about Michael Field: On saying sorry – who next? The Banabans?">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s new prime minister has opted not to proceed with a China-backed port development project championed by her predecessor. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa said the US$100 million (NZ$139m) project would have significantly added to the country’s exposure to China which already accounts for 40 percent of its external debt. The proposed construction in Vaiusu ... <a title="Samoa confirms China-backed Vaiusu Bay port project shelved" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/02/samoa-confirms-china-backed-vaiusu-bay-port-project-shelved/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa confirms China-backed Vaiusu Bay port project shelved">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Richard Kohn, Ph.D.From Columbia, MD Recently, there have been reports in the news media that Nicaragua is destroying its rain forests and allowing beef ranchers to convert them to pastures in the country’s vast nature reserves. A network of supposed human rights and environmental groups are calling ... <a title="Nicaragua: U.S. sanctions will disrupt sustainable beef production and reforestation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/nicaragua-u-s-sanctions-will-disrupt-sustainable-beef-production-and-reforestation/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaragua: U.S. sanctions will disrupt sustainable beef production and reforestation">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Hele Christopher-Ikimotu I am Banaban. I come from an ancestry of survivors and a once rich land. However, Banaba died to make other nations live. The Banabans though are proud survivors and we maintain that we are a race that still lives. Google will tell you my ancestral home of Banaba is ... <a title="Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/banaba-island-the-land-that-died-so-others-could-live/" aria-label="Read more about Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2021
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has held national mourning ceremonies at the weekend for the death of Vanuatu independence campaigner Father Allen Nafuki and prayed for the Papuan people to be accepted as full members of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). The closing ceremonies were held in ... <a title="West Papua closes national mourning for Pastor Nafuki – prays for MSG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/22/west-papua-closes-national-mourning-for-pastor-nafuki-prays-for-msg/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua closes national mourning for Pastor Nafuki – prays for MSG">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2021
Tagata Pasifika They were the face of a generation growing up in a new land. They were the Polynesian Panthers, young activists fighting against social and racial injustice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Fifty years on, they’re back to share their struggles and triumphs as we look back on their legacy. From 1971-1974, the Polynesian Panthers ... <a title="Tagata Pasifika Special: Celebrating 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/19/tagata-pasifika-special-celebrating-50-years-of-the-polynesian-panthers/" aria-label="Read more about Tagata Pasifika Special: Celebrating 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2021
RNZ Pacific A prominent Australian lawyer, Greg Sheppard, has been arrested by Papua New Guinean police and is facing a range of fraud charges. Sheppard, a principal of Young & Williams Lawyers, was arrested on Tuesday in Port Moresby. He was charged with two counts of misappropriation and another two counts of money laundering. Police ... <a title="High profile lawyer faces fresh fraud, money laundering charges in PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/14/high-profile-lawyer-faces-fresh-fraud-money-laundering-charges-in-png/" aria-label="Read more about High profile lawyer faces fresh fraud, money laundering charges in PNG">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama describes FRIEND as a “proxy for the opposition”. Video: Fiji Village By Dhanjay Deo in Suva Opposition National Federation Party (NFP) leader Professor Biman Prasad says this week’s attack by Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum on the non-government organisation, Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises Development (FRIEND) is “shameful and disgraceful”. Prasad said ... <a title="Prasad condemns Fiji AG’s attack on FRIEND as ‘shameful, disgraceful’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/prasad-condemns-fiji-ags-attack-on-friend-as-shameful-disgraceful/" aria-label="Read more about Prasad condemns Fiji AG’s attack on FRIEND as ‘shameful, disgraceful’">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Danny Shaw From New York Like Palestinians in Israel and Latino, Asian and Muslim immigrants in the U.S., Haitians in the Dominican Republic are demeaned, harassed, and victimized in both extraordinary and mundane ways. Pushed out of their homeland by centuries of neo-colonialism and exploitation, officially 751,080 ... <a title="Dominican Wall of Anti-Haitianism Keeps Neocolonial Inequity Alive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/dominican-wall-of-anti-haitianism-keeps-neocolonial-inequity-alive/" aria-label="Read more about Dominican Wall of Anti-Haitianism Keeps Neocolonial Inequity Alive">Read more</a>
