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July 17, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in an attempt to stop the environmental organisation’s protest against nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll in Mā’ohi Nui. People gathered on board Rainbow Warrior III to remember photographer Fernando Pereira, ... <a title="Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/rainbow-warrior-bombing-by-french-secret-agents-remembered-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population of 320 from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After conducting dozens of above-ground nuclear explosions, the US government had left the ... <a title="The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/07/the-rainbow-warrior-saga-part-2-nuclear-refugees-in-the-pacific-the-evacuation-of-rongelap/" aria-label="Read more about The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2025
Pacific Media Watch In July 1985, Australia’s Pacific territory of Norfolk Island (pop. 2188) became the centre of a real life international spy thriller. Four French agents sailed there on board the Ouvéa, a yacht from Kanaky New Caledonia, after bombing the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, killing Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira. The Rainbow Warrior was ... <a title="Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/03/fallout-spies-on-norfolk-island-sbs-podcast/" aria-label="Read more about Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of its independent foreign policy in the face of gathering global storm clouds. Writing in a new book being published next week, she says “nuclear war is an existential threat to ... <a title="Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/30/clark-warns-in-new-pacific-book-renewed-nuclear-tensions-pose-existential-threat-to-humanity/" aria-label="Read more about Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential threat to humanity’">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2025
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal, and RNZ Pacific correspondent A new report on the United States nuclear weapons testing legacy in the Marshall Islands highlights the lack of studies into important health concerns voiced by Marshallese for decades that make it impossible to have a clear understanding of the impacts of the 67 ... <a title="Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/06/marshall-islands-nuclear-legacy-report-highlights-lack-of-health-research/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace We’ve visited Ground Zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as such, they were the ancestral home to the people of the Marshall Islands. As part of a team of Greenpeace scientists and specialists from the Radiation Protection Advisers team, we ... <a title="Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/10/tracing-radiation-through-the-marshall-islands-reflections-from-a-veteran-greenpeace-nuclear-campaigner/" aria-label="Read more about Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro The late Member of Parliament Jeton Anjain and the people of the nuclear test-affected Rongelap Atoll changed the course of the history of the Marshall Islands by using Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior ship to evacuate their radioactive home islands ... <a title="Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/15/marshall-islands-how-the-rongelap-evacuation-changed-the-course-of-history/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – REVIEW: By Giff Johnson in Majuro As a prelude to the 40th anniversary of the evacuation of Rongelap Islanders to Mejatto Island in Kwajalein in 1985, Radio New Zealand and ABC Radio Australia have produced a six-part podcast series that details the Rongelap story — in ... <a title="How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior podcast series" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/how-jeton-anjain-planned-the-rongelap-evacuation-new-rainbow-warrior-podcast-series/" aria-label="Read more about How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior podcast series">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2023
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist More than 100 activist groups, including Greenpeace, Veterans for Peace, and the Arms Control Association have signed a letter calling on US President Joe Biden to apologise for nuclear tests conducted in the Marshall Islands. The letter urges Biden to deliver on promises his administration has made regarding justice ... <a title="Activists call for US apology, ‘justice’ over Marshall Islands nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/23/activists-call-for-us-apology-justice-over-marshall-islands-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Activists call for US apology, ‘justice’ over Marshall Islands nuclear tests">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2021
By Irfan Kamil in Jakarta Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has condemned the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) under the leadership of Firli Bahuri as an “authoritarian and anti-criticism” institution over the Greenpeace laser protest. ICW researcher Kurnia Ramadhana said this after the KPK had reported Greenpeace Indonesia to the South Jakarta district police (Polres) for laser ... <a title="Reporting Greenpeace to police shows KPK has become authoritarian, says watchdog" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/reporting-greenpeace-to-police-shows-kpk-has-become-authoritarian-says-watchdog/" aria-label="Read more about Reporting Greenpeace to police shows KPK has become authoritarian, says watchdog">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner reading “Drop Dirty Palm Oil Now” at a Wilmar International palm oil refinery in Bitung, North Sulawesi, in September. Image: Jurnasyanto Sukarno/Greenpeace Indonesia By Ivany Atina Arbi in Jakarta Six Greenpeace activists have reportedly been detained by the captain of the tanker Stolt Tenacity for staging a rally against global ... <a title="Six activists detained for staging palm oil shipboard rally, says Greenpeace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/six-activists-detained-for-staging-palm-oil-shipboard-rally-says-greenpeace/" aria-label="Read more about Six activists detained for staging palm oil shipboard rally, says Greenpeace">Read more</a>
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July 10, 2018
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