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January 25, 2025
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews Vanuatu’s top lawyer has called out the United States for “bad behavior” after newly inaugurated President Donald Trump withdrew the world’s biggest historic emitter of greenhouse gasses from the Paris Agreement for a second time. The Pacific nation’s Attorney-General Arnold Loughman, who led Vanuatu’s landmark International Court of Justice climate ... <a title="Vanuatu AG condemns Trump’s Paris climate treaty exit as ‘troubling precedent’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/25/vanuatu-ag-condemns-trumps-paris-climate-treaty-exit-as-troubling-precedent/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu AG condemns Trump’s Paris climate treaty exit as ‘troubling precedent’">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Fiji’s Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad has told an international conference in Bangkok that some of the most severely debt-stressed countries are the island states of the Pacific. Dr Prasad, who is also a former economic professor, said the harshest impacts of global economic re-engineering are being felt ... <a title="‘Decolonise’ aid urgent call from Fiji’s Prasad to face Pacific climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/decolonise-aid-urgent-call-from-fijis-prasad-to-face-pacific-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Decolonise’ aid urgent call from Fiji’s Prasad to face Pacific climate crisis">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope for better things this year. Decolonisation issues involving the future of Kanaky New Caledonia and West Papua – and also in the Middle East with controversial United Nations votes by ... <a title="Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/five-pacific-region-geopolitical-betrayals-in-2024/" aria-label="Read more about Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Paul Gregoire United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) provisional government interim president Benny Wenda has warned that since Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto took office in October, he has been proven right in having remarked, after the politician’s last February election, that his coming marks the return of “the ghost of Suharto” ... <a title="‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/ghost-of-suharto-marks-prabowos-new-phase-in-west-papua-occupation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab As 2024 came to a close and we have stepped into a new year overshadowed by ongoing atrocities, have you stopped to consider how these events are reshaping your world? Did you notice how your future — and that of generations to ... <a title="Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab: The Palestine tragedy – why it should matter to you and our world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/katrina-mitchell-kouttab-the-palestine-tragedy-why-it-should-matter-to-you-and-our-world/" aria-label="Read more about Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab: The Palestine tragedy – why it should matter to you and our world">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2024
By Ella Stewart, (Ngāpuhi, Te Māhurehure, Ngāti Manu), RNZ longform journalist, Te Ao Māori On a sticky day in January, dozens of nannies and aunties from Tainui shook and waved fronds of greenery as they called manuhiri onto Tuurangawaewae Marae. More than 10,000 people had responded to a rare call for unity from the Māori ... <a title="Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini – a historic year for Māoridom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/29/hui-protests-kotahitanga-and-a-new-kuini-a-historic-year-for-maoridom/" aria-label="Read more about Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini – a historic year for Māoridom">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2024
By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori journalism intern at RNZ News From being the headline to creating them, Moana Maniapoto has walked a rather rocky road of swinging between both sides of the media. Known for her award-winning current affairs show Te Ao with Moana on Whakaata Māori, and the 1990s cover of Black ... <a title="Moana Maniapoto on the sound of the 80s to world-class journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/24/moana-maniapoto-on-the-sound-of-the-80s-to-world-class-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Moana Maniapoto on the sound of the 80s to world-class journalism">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2024
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Activist/educator Tina Ngata (Ngati Porou) has warned proposed changes to Aotearoa New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi principles would undermine indigenous Māori sovereignty, rights, and protections, and risk corporate exploitation and environmental harm. Ngata is a member of Koekoeā, a tāngata whenua and tāngata tiriti rōpu which ... <a title="Te Tiriti: The history and implications of the Treaty Principles Bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/13/te-tiriti-the-history-and-implications-of-the-treaty-principles-bill/" aria-label="Read more about Te Tiriti: The history and implications of the Treaty Principles Bill">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
RNZ Pacific Vanuatu’s special envoy to climate change says their case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is based on the argument that those harming the climate are breaking international law. The case seeks an advisory opinion from the court on the legal responsibilities of countries in relation to climate change, and dozens of ... <a title="Climate justice: Vanuatu’s landmark case at ICJ seeks to hold polluting nations responsible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/climate-justice-vanuatus-landmark-case-at-icj-seeks-to-hold-polluting-nations-responsible/" aria-label="Read more about Climate justice: Vanuatu’s landmark case at ICJ seeks to hold polluting nations responsible">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders has condemned the assassination of Cambodian investigative environmental journalist Chhoeung Chheng who has died from his wounds. He was shot by an illegal logger last week while investigating unlawful deforestation in the country’s northwest. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged the Cambodian government ... <a title="RSF condemns assassination of Cambodian environmental journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/10/rsf-condemns-assassination-of-cambodian-environmental-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns assassination of Cambodian environmental journalist">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2024
The Cook Islands has used its first-ever appearance at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to advocate for the “decolonisation” of international law. While making an oral statement for an advisory opinion on the obligations of states regarding climate change, Auckland University senior lecturer Fuimaono Dr Dylan Asafo placed the blame on “our international legal ... <a title="Cook Islands seeks ‘decolonisation’ of international law at ICJ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/09/cook-islands-seeks-decolonisation-of-international-law-at-icj/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands seeks ‘decolonisation’ of international law at ICJ">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster in Brisbane The first large-scale environmental impact assessment of Rio Tinto’s abandoned Panguna mine in Papua New Guinea has found local communities face life-threatening risks from its legacy. The independent study was initiated after frustrated landowners in PNG’s Autonomous Region of Bougainville took their longstanding grievances against Rio Tinto to the Australian ... <a title="Panguna human rights report fuels Bougainville demands for Rio Tinto-funded mine clean-up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/09/panguna-human-rights-report-fuels-bougainville-demands-for-rio-tinto-funded-mine-clean-up/" aria-label="Read more about Panguna human rights report fuels Bougainville demands for Rio Tinto-funded mine clean-up">Read more</a>
