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Queen Mary Uni to host tribunal on ‘environmental violence, profiteering’ in West Papua

June 19, 2024

Asia Pacific Report The Centre for Climate Crime and Justice at Queen Mary University of London will host a Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on State and Environmental Violence in West Papua later this month. A panel of eight tribunal judges will hear evidence on June 27-29 from many international NGOs and local civil society organisations, as ... <a title="Queen Mary Uni to host tribunal on ‘environmental violence, profiteering’ in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/queen-mary-uni-to-host-tribunal-on-environmental-violence-profiteering-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Queen Mary Uni to host tribunal on ‘environmental violence, profiteering’ in West Papua">Read more</a>

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‘Greedy lying racists’, ‘Kill the bill’, say thousands of NZ protesters over fast track draft

June 9, 2024

Asia Pacific Report About 20,000 protesters marched through the heart of New Zealand’s largest city Auckland today demonstrating against the unpopular Fast Track Approvals Bill that critics fear will ruin the country’s environment, undermine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi with indigenous Māori, and open the door to corruption. Holding placards declaring the coalition government is ... <a title="‘Greedy lying racists’, ‘Kill the bill’, say thousands of NZ protesters over fast track draft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/09/greedy-lying-racists-kill-the-bill-say-thousands-of-nz-protesters-over-fast-track-draft/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Greedy lying racists’, ‘Kill the bill’, say thousands of NZ protesters over fast track draft">Read more</a>

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‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing

February 26, 2021

ANALYSIS: By Dana M Bergstrom, University of Wollongong; Euan Ritchie, Deakin University; Lesley Hughes, Macquarie University, and Michael Depledge, University of Exeter In 1992, 1700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were “on a collision course”. Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans and other life could have a ... <a title="‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/26/existential-threat-to-our-survival-see-the-19-australian-ecosystems-already-collapsing/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Existential threat to our survival’ – see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing">Read more</a>

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

October 12, 2020

SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch In this new covid-19 world, environmental and climate crisis defenders are developing new ways to cope and operate under the pandemic constraints. Groups as diverse as the local branch of the global environmental campaigner Greenpeace Pacific, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Green Party in ... <a title="How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/how-pacific-environmental-defenders-are-coping-with-the-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic">Read more</a>

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Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media

April 16, 2019

Malolo Island … Fiji officials had been given drone footage and photographs of the ongoing destruction in breach of the environmental and planning approvals but nothing was done. Image: FBC News By RNZ Pacific Fiji’s opposition has called for a full investigation by an impartial committee into allegations of collusion by government officials in the ... <a title="Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/16/fiji-opposition-seeks-malolo-damage-probe-criticises-local-media/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji opposition seeks Malolo damage probe, criticises local media">Read more</a>

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NZ journalists arrested in Fiji now free but no new era of press freedom

April 10, 2019

Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama talks to Newsroom’s Melanie Reid … “it shouldn’t be assumed that he was declaring a new-found interest in freedom of the press.” Image: Newsroom screenshot/PMC ANALYSIS: By Dr Dominic O’Sullivan It is not unusual for Fiji to intimidate and imprison journalists. Journalists provide checks on government, parliament and business, which ... <a title="NZ journalists arrested in Fiji now free but no new era of press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/10/nz-journalists-arrested-in-fiji-now-free-but-no-new-era-of-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about NZ journalists arrested in Fiji now free but no new era of press freedom">Read more</a>