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April 1, 2025
The first of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior crew and the return of Rainbow Warrior III 40 years later on a nuclear justice research mission. SPECIAL REPORT: By Shiva Gounden in Majuro Family isn’t just ... <a title="‘We’re not just welcoming you as allies, but as family’ – Rainbow Warrior in Marshall Islands 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/were-not-just-welcoming-you-as-allies-but-as-family-rainbow-warrior-in-marshall-islands-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re not just welcoming you as allies, but as family’ – Rainbow Warrior in Marshall Islands 40 years on">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan doctoral candidate has warned that indigenous noken-weaving practices back in her homeland are under threat with the world’s biggest deforestation project. About 60 people turned up for the opening of her “Noken/Men: String Bags of the Muyu Tribe of Southern West Papua” exhibition by Veronika T Kanem at Auckland ... <a title="Researcher warns over West Papuan deforestation impact on traditional noken weaving" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/28/researcher-warns-over-west-papuan-deforestation-impact-on-traditional-noken-weaving/" aria-label="Read more about Researcher warns over West Papuan deforestation impact on traditional noken weaving">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Notes from The Edge of the Narrative MatrixActing on orders from the White House, immigration agents arrested a Columbia University graduate for deportation due to his leadership of campus protests against Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza last year. Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Even more assaults on free speech to silence criticism of Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/13/caitlin-johnstone-even-more-assaults-on-free-speech-to-silence-criticism-of-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Even more assaults on free speech to silence criticism of Israel">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2025
International Women’s Day, March 8, is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women around the world. Closer to home, here in Aotearoa New Zealand, we can take a moment to acknowledge Pasifika women, and in particular the contributions of Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban. For her, “International Women’s day is an opportunity to acknowledge Pasifika ... <a title="Luamanuvao reflects on International Women’s Day and ‘Pacific dreams’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/10/luamanuvao-reflects-on-international-womens-day-and-pacific-dreams/" aria-label="Read more about Luamanuvao reflects on International Women’s Day and ‘Pacific dreams’">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Markela Panegyres and Jonathan Strauss in Sydney The new Universities Australia (UA) definition of antisemitism, endorsed last month for adoption by 39 Australian universities, is an ugly attempt to quash the pro-Palestine solidarity movement on campuses and to silence academics, university workers and students who critique Israel and Zionism. While the Scott ... <a title="Australian university workers: ‘We will not be silenced over Palestine’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/06/australian-university-workers-we-will-not-be-silenced-over-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Australian university workers: ‘We will not be silenced over Palestine’">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An independent Jewish body has condemned the move by Australia’s 39 universities to endorse a “dangerous and politicised” definition of antisemitism which threatens academic freedom. The Jewish Council of Australia, a diverse coalition of Jewish academics, lawyers, writers and teachers, said in a statement that the move would have a “chilling effect” ... <a title="Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/jewish-council-slams-australian-universities-dangerous-politicised-antisemitism-definition/" aria-label="Read more about Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2025
By Gizem Nisa Cebi The BBC has removed its documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone from iPlayer after it was revealed that its teenage narrator is the son of a Hamas official. The broadcaster stated that it was conducting “further due diligence” following mounting scrutiny. The film, which aired on BBC Two last Monday, ... <a title="Critics condemn ‘cowardly’ BBC for pulling Gaza warzone youth survival documentary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/22/critics-condemn-cowardly-bbc-for-pulling-gaza-warzone-youth-survival-documentary/" aria-label="Read more about Critics condemn ‘cowardly’ BBC for pulling Gaza warzone youth survival documentary">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A New Zealand-based community education provider, Dark Times Academy, has had a US Embassy grant to deliver a course teaching Pacific Islands journalists about disinformation terminated after the new Trump administration took office. The new US administration requested a list of course participants and to review the programme material amid controversy over ... <a title="US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid ‘freeze’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/20/us-backing-for-pacific-disinformation-media-course-casualty-of-trump-aid-freeze/" aria-label="Read more about US backing for Pacific disinformation media course casualty of Trump aid ‘freeze’">Read more</a>
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February 12, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Robin Davies Much has been and much more will be written about the looming abolition of USAID. It’s “the removal of a huge and important tool of American global statecraft” (Konyndyk), or the wood-chipping of a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America” (Musk) or, more reasonably, the unwarranted cancellation of an ... <a title="Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/12/powerless-another-asia-pacific-angle-on-the-long-siege-of-usaid/" aria-label="Read more about Powerless – another Asia-Pacific angle on the long siege of USAID">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Israeli police have confiscated hundreds of books with Palestinian titles or flags without understanding their contents in a draconian raid on a Palestinian educational bookshop in occupied East Jerusalem, say eyewitnesses. More details have emerged on the Israeli police raid on a popular bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem. The owners were arrested ... <a title="Israeli police cite children’s ‘colouring book’ for Palestinian bookshop raid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/11/israeli-police-cite-childrens-colouring-book-for-palestinian-bookshop-raid/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli police cite children’s ‘colouring book’ for Palestinian bookshop raid">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Monika Singh The lack of women representation in parliaments across the world remains a vexed and contentious issue. In Fiji, this problem has again surfaced for debate in response to Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica’s call for a quota system to increase women’s representation in Parliament. Kamikamica was speaking at the “Capacity Building ... <a title="Fiji quota proposal sparks debate on women’s representation in politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/16/fiji-quota-proposal-sparks-debate-on-womens-representation-in-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji quota proposal sparks debate on women’s representation in politics">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2024
The New Zealand government coalition is tweaking university regulations to curb what it says is an increasingly “risk-averse approach” to free speech. The proposed changes will set clear expectations on how universities should approach freedom of speech issues. Each university will then have to adopt a “freedom of speech statement” consistent with the central government’s ... <a title="NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech rules for universities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/22/nz-govt-plans-to-make-heavy-handed-change-to-free-speech-rules-for-universities/" aria-label="Read more about NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech rules for universities">Read more</a>
