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July 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s police and courts must work closely with media for transparency to inform the public on the daily investigation and court processes taken over the death of young mother Jenelyn Kennedy late last month, a men’s gender justice advocate says. Man Up group representative Ganjiki Wayne said Jenelyn’s death ... <a title="Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media on violence cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/call-for-png-police-and-courts-to-work-closely-with-media-on-violence-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media on violence cases">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Thirty five years ago this week in another life Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie was an environmental journalist on board the original Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace flagship that was bombed by French secret agents on 10 July 1985. He was on board for almost 11 weeks and joined the ... <a title="Pacific bombs, nuclear weapons and the Rongelap evacuation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/pacific-bombs-nuclear-weapons-and-the-rongelap-evacuation/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific bombs, nuclear weapons and the Rongelap evacuation">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Lokataru Legal and Human Rights Foundation says there are two problems with the Indonesian police which have developed during the era of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration. These two problems are “politicisation” and “police professionalism”. “Perhaps it’s still the same as the problem before, particularly during the era of Jokowi’s ... <a title="Police have become political tool under Widodo’s watch, says rights group" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/police-have-become-political-tool-under-widodos-watch-says-rights-group/" aria-label="Read more about Police have become political tool under Widodo’s watch, says rights group">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
By RNZ Pacific A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons test at Moruroa. The demonstration was organised by the anti-nuclear group Association 193 which again decried the recent law change tightening compensation criteria for those suffering ill-health. The group ... <a title="Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/protest-marks-french-pacific-nuclear-tests-at-moruroa-anniversary/" aria-label="Read more about Protest marks French Pacific nuclear tests at Moruroa anniversary">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Philippines Anti-Terrorism Law, Vice-President Leni Robredo has pushed for safeguards so that the controversial measure would not be abused, reports Rappler. In her weekly radio show with co-host Ely Saludar, Robredo noted that she does not oppose the law itself, but wants assurance that ... <a title="‘Fight not over’, says Robredo pushing for safeguards in anti-terror law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/fight-not-over-says-robredo-pushing-for-safeguards-in-anti-terror-law/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Fight not over’, says Robredo pushing for safeguards in anti-terror law">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2020
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby Key findings from the 2016 to 2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey reveals that 56 percent of women aged 15 to 49 in PNG have experienced physical violence around the age of 15. And 28 percent have experienced sexual violence. Also 18 percent of women who have ... <a title="PNG health survey shows 56% of women suffer violence at age 15" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/05/png-health-survey-shows-56-of-women-suffer-violence-at-age-15/" aria-label="Read more about PNG health survey shows 56% of women suffer violence at age 15">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2020
The New Zealand Herald recently published a column which criticises its own record on race. Teuila Fuatai explains why she felt she had to call out the paper that commissioned her. In the column, freelance journalist Teuila Fuatai detailed her concerns about the Herald’s record on race and her efforts to raise those with her editors. ... <a title="RNZ Mediawatch: Forcing the issue of race at the Herald" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/05/rnz-mediawatch-forcing-the-issue-of-race-at-the-herald/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Mediawatch: Forcing the issue of race at the Herald">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2020
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is responsible for a massive privacy breach relating to New Zealand’s active covid cases, and is not ruling out pursuing criminal charges. An investigation has been ordered into the breach, with ... <a title="Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy breach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/04/criminal-charges-possible-if-leak-source-identified-in-nz-covid-privacy-breach/" aria-label="Read more about Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy breach">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2020
The National editorial Hundreds walked the Sir John Guise drive on Thursday calling for justice for the brutal death of 19-year-old mother-of-two – Jenelyn Kennedy last week. Jenelyn’s battered lifeless body was taken into the Port Moresby General Hospital last Tuesday by four men (one believed to be the father of her two children). Dr ... <a title="The National: Let’s play our part to end violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/04/the-national-lets-play-our-part-to-end-violence/" aria-label="Read more about The National: Let’s play our part to end violence">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2020
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby A passionate plea by men, women and children has echoed around the Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby – that it is time to turn the corner on addressing gender-based violence in the country. Gatherings, a peaceful march and a vigil were staged in the capital city on ... <a title="‘It’s time men stand up for our women’ message at ‘turning point’ PNG vigil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/04/its-time-men-stand-up-for-our-women-message-at-turning-point-png-vigil/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s time men stand up for our women’ message at ‘turning point’ PNG vigil">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Pacific Media Watch A senior Indonesian government official and a New Zealand journalism professor have clashed over differing perspectives on access for journalists and media to the West Papua region. Speaking on a webinar organised by the Jubi newspaper in Jayapura, Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ director of the European affairs Sade Bimantara said Papua was ... <a title="Webinar panel on Papua sharply divided over media ‘black hole’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/webinar-panel-on-papua-sharply-divided-over-media-black-hole/" aria-label="Read more about Webinar panel on Papua sharply divided over media ‘black hole’">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Australia’s ABC has revealed the Australian Federal Police (AFP) recommendation regarding the Afghan Files investigative journalism report is for the Commonwealth DPP to consider charging journalist Dan Oakes for his role in the leak. The revelation has prompted a renewed call by the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom (APJ) for a media freedom ... <a title="Possible Afghan Files probe journalist prosecution sparks free media law call" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/possible-afghan-files-probe-journalist-prosecution-sparks-free-media-law-call/" aria-label="Read more about Possible Afghan Files probe journalist prosecution sparks free media law call">Read more</a>
