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June 29, 2020
By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was actually Brazil, or Texas. The media language has been full of claims of “botches” at the border, and laxness and inexcusable errors that amounted to a “national disgrace.” Amid all ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/gordon-campbell-media-collusion-with-nationals-attack-lines-the-real-disgrace/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Host Sherry Zhang interviewed the director of the Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, about the tragic life and death of Jenelyn Kennedy from gender violence in Papua New Guinea today on the Southern Cross segment of Radio 95bFM. Professor Robie discussed the rather horrific image of her lifeless body on the ... <a title="Tragic death of Jenelyn Kennedy and media ethics aired on Southern Cross" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/tragic-death-of-jenelyn-kennedy-and-media-ethics-aired-on-southern-cross/" aria-label="Read more about Tragic death of Jenelyn Kennedy and media ethics aired on Southern Cross">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985, says an author and academic who spent weeks on the vessel shortly before it was attacked. On 10 July 1985, the Rainbow Warrior was sunk at an ... <a title="NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing, says author" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/nz-gained-international-creds-as-nuclear-free-nation-with-rainbow-warrior-bombing-says-author/" aria-label="Read more about NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing, says author">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Protesters in Papua New Guinea and on social media have launched calls for tougher laws to protect women and girls from gender-based violence and brutality after the torture and death of a 19-year-old mother of two this week. The death of Jenelyn Kennedy on Tuesday after six days of torture, allegedly by ... <a title="PNG women ‘as good as dead’ say protesters calling for tougher laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/28/png-women-as-good-as-dead-say-protesters-calling-for-tougher-laws/" aria-label="Read more about PNG women ‘as good as dead’ say protesters calling for tougher laws">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2020
By Rebecca Kuku in The National Jenelyn Kennedy … died this week at 19 in a tragic domestic violence case in Papua New Guinea. Image: EMTV News The battered body of young mother Jenelyn Kennedy lay in a morgue yesterday as relatives told of the repeated beatings she had been receiving in the past five ... <a title="The harrowing picture that tells a thousand words about tragedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/27/the-harrowing-picture-that-tells-a-thousand-words-about-tragedy/" aria-label="Read more about The harrowing picture that tells a thousand words about tragedy">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Miss Universe NZ 2019 beauty queen Diamond Langi is being trolled by thousands of Indonesians on social media for speaking up about discrimination against West Papuans. “The post I had made was #FreeWestPapua with a video showcasing the discrimination West Papuans have had to endure for ... <a title="Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/indonesian-trolls-target-tongan-beauty-diamond-langi-over-papuan-solidarity/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Support this progressive voice and be a part of it. Donate to COHA today. Click here By Danny Shaw From NY The human rights group Indepaz reports that 800 activists have been killed in the past three and a half years in Colombia, since November 24, 2016, the ... <a title="Colombia’s Other Pandemic: Unchecked State Violence in the Time of COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/colombias-other-pandemic-unchecked-state-violence-in-the-time-of-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Colombia’s Other Pandemic: Unchecked State Violence in the Time of COVID-19">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand’s “intransigence” over wanting to allow Australians in before New Zealanders out to the covid-free Pacific does not stand up to scrutiny, says a Cook Islands resort owner and doctor. “If we unwittingly let the virus cross the Tasman, our country will take a huge hit,” says New Zealand-based John ... <a title="Forget Australia, open up to covid-free Pacific bubble, says Cook Islander" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/forget-australia-open-up-to-covid-free-pacific-bubble-says-cook-islander/" aria-label="Read more about Forget Australia, open up to covid-free Pacific bubble, says Cook Islander">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
By Nasik Swami in Suva In the interest of transparency, the University of the South Pacific should make public the contents of the university’s “secret” BDO Report and also the allegations made against vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia, says a leading New Zealand-based Fiji academic. “Public interest demands that the BDO report needs to be released ... <a title="Make ‘secret’ BDO report and USP inquiries public, says Ratuva" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/make-secret-bdo-report-and-usp-inquiries-public-says-ratuva/" aria-label="Read more about Make ‘secret’ BDO report and USP inquiries public, says Ratuva">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
By Apriza Pinandita in Jakarta Indonesia has urged the international community to speak up and take decisive action against racial violence at a United Nations forum in Geneva, Switzerland. But Indonesia’s call comes amid concerns of racial discrimination at home. The UN Human Rights Council last Wednesday held an urgent debate on racial violence, the ... <a title="Indonesia calls for more action against racism as issues persist at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/indonesia-calls-for-more-action-against-racism-as-issues-persist-at-home/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia calls for more action against racism as issues persist at home">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Rita Jill Clark-Gollub (Washington), Erika Takeo (Managua), and Avery Raimondo (Los Angeles) “A nation that cannot feed itself is not free.” Fausto Torrez, Nicaraguan Rural Workers Association An array of UN agencies is predicting a global hunger pandemic triggered by COVID-19 lockdowns, with the head of the ... <a title="Feeding the people in times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/feeding-the-people-in-times-of-pandemic-the-food-sovereignty-approach-in-nicaragua/" aria-label="Read more about Feeding the people in times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Conference of Churches has called for justice in Mā’ohi (French Polynesia) and for Oscar Temaru, the activist mayor of Fa’aa and former territorial president. In a message read at a protest march in Pape’ete at the weekend, PCC general secretary Reverend James Bhagwan called on France not to ignore ... <a title="Pacific churches add ‘justice for Mā’ohi’ voice at Tahitian rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/pacific-churches-add-justice-for-maohi-voice-at-tahitian-rally/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific churches add ‘justice for Mā’ohi’ voice at Tahitian rally">Read more</a>
