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July 18, 2023
By Leitu Fereti in Suva The Brown Girl Woke initiative hopes to continue empowering Samoan youth in fighting against the culture of silence over violence. Founder Maluseu Doris Tulifau says it is essential to support young people in finding their voice and speaking out on these issues. Tulifau, 29, launched the non-profit feminist organisation in ... <a title="Samoa’s Brown Girl Woke initiative fights culture of silence on violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/18/samoas-brown-girl-woke-initiative-fights-culture-of-silence-on-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s Brown Girl Woke initiative fights culture of silence on violence">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2023
By Shayal Devi in Suva “Our people are fed up with coups” — this is the message from renowned Fijian academic Professor Steven Ratuva as he reiterated the statement shared by Minister for Home Affairs Pio Tikoduadua earlier this week. Professor Ratuva, director of Canterbury University’s Centre for Pacific Studies in New Zealand, said coups ... <a title="Fijians are ‘fed up’ – no more coups in modern politics, says Ratuva" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/16/fijians-are-fed-up-no-more-coups-in-modern-politics-says-ratuva/" aria-label="Read more about Fijians are ‘fed up’ – no more coups in modern politics, says Ratuva">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2023
RNZ Pacific A West Papua pro-independence leader says Indonesia is ramping up its repression of peaceful activists while people mobilise in favour of the province gaining full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). Benny Wenda said 10 activists were arrested earlier this week while handing out leaflets advertising a peaceful rally to support his ... <a title="Wenda slams ‘grave abuses’ against Papuan activists at MSG demos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/14/wenda-slams-grave-abuses-against-papuan-activists-at-msg-demos/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda slams ‘grave abuses’ against Papuan activists at MSG demos">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Advocates and defenders of a nuclear-free Pacific have condemned the AUKUS military pact and warned New Zealand that the agreement would make the world “more dangerous” and should not join. Participants at a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement teachers’ wānanga launched a petition against the pact with one of the “elders” ... <a title="Nuclear-free campaigners warn against AUKUS raising Pacific tensions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/11/nuclear-free-campaigners-warn-against-aukus-raising-pacific-tensions/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear-free campaigners warn against AUKUS raising Pacific tensions">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2023
Pacific island countries’ “relentless” efforts at the UN’s specialist agency on shipping, International Maritime Organisation (IMO), has resulted in the adoption of a new emissions reductions strategy to ensure the Paris Agreement goal remains within reach. The IMO’s 80th Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC80) was under pressure to deliver an outcome to reduce the global ... <a title="UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/08/un-shipping-agency-endorses-1-5-degrees-plan-after-relentless-pacific-lobbying/" aria-label="Read more about UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2023
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist The Fiji government has announced its “rebuilding our future together” Budget with a spend of FJ$4.3 billion (NZ$3.2 billion) to address the high cost of living and pay for the hefty bill racked up by the former FijiFirst administration and the global pandemic, coupled with multiple tropical cyclones and ... <a title="Fiji’s 2023 Budget: Major spending and projects but high debt ‘on watch’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/01/fijis-2023-budget-major-spending-and-projects-but-high-debt-on-watch/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s 2023 Budget: Major spending and projects but high debt ‘on watch’">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2023
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist Securing a nuclear-free region has been a long battle for the Pacific. After the Second World War, the United States, along with its French and British allies, frequently tested nuclear weapons in the region. In 1963 the British, American and Soviet governments agreed to ban atmospheric tests, but India, ... <a title="Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/01/anti-nuclear-movements-need-to-return-to-table-says-fang-activist/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
By Peter Boyle in Sydney As Pacific communities protest the Japanese government’s plan to dump more than a million tonnes of radioactive waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, Australian anti-nuclear activists are highlighting the complicity of Australian uranium exporting companies. While the Fukushima Daiichi power station operator, Tokyo Electric Power ... <a title="Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/japans-fukushima-nuclear-waste-plan-stirs-pacific-chernobyl-risk-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2023
By Giff Johnson in Majuro A five-day Media, Elections and Democracy workshop wrapped up last week in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro with the first-ever Summit on Democracy: Public Engagement, Communications and the Media. More than 40 students, journalists and public information officers from government and NGOs participated in the programme organised by the Pacific ... <a title="Majuro workshop and summit spotlight media and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/26/majuro-workshop-and-summit-spotlight-media-and-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Majuro workshop and summit spotlight media and democracy">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2023
By Elena Vucukula in Suva Children are abandoned and forgotten when a large number of Fijians leave the country for work and start new relationships abroad. Consultant Marica Tabualevu of the Fiji-Australian Humanitarian Partnership has called for measures that would hold people responsible or accountable for forgotten children. She said adults who engaged in such ... <a title="Fiji children ‘abandoned, forgotten’ by overseas workers, says counsellor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/20/fiji-children-abandoned-forgotten-by-overseas-workers-says-counsellor/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji children ‘abandoned, forgotten’ by overseas workers, says counsellor">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2023
By Viliame Tawanakoro in Suva The University of the South Pacific’s regional journalism programme has penned three milestone Memorandums of Understanding that will usher in greater collaboration with media industry partners over student upskilling and training, joint workshops and seminars, and publication of the award-winning training newspaper Wansolwara. Papua New Guinea’s National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) ... <a title="USP signs ‘milestone Pacific MOUs’ for enterprising journalism initiatives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/20/usp-signs-milestone-pacific-mous-for-enterprising-journalism-initiatives/" aria-label="Read more about USP signs ‘milestone Pacific MOUs’ for enterprising journalism initiatives">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Richard Naidu in Suva It has been six months now, but I have to make a strange admission. I miss the laughs I used to get over the pseudo-authoritative pronouncements of Fiji’s former attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum (pictured). I recall that he got a bit over-excited in January this year. That was when he ... <a title="Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still weren’t enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/17/richard-naidu-money-politics-and-fear-yet-ffps-millions-still-werent-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still weren’t enough">Read more</a>
