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June 4, 2025
RNZ Pacific Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, a pioneering Ni-Vanuatu politician, has died. Lini passed away at the Port Vila General Hospital on Sunday, according to local news media. Lini was the first woman to be elected to the Vanuatu Parliament in 1987 as a member of the National United Party. Motarilavoa Hilda Lini in 1989 . ... <a title="Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/motarilavoa-hilda-lini-a-trailblazer-for-vanuatu-women-in-politics-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, dies">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Taieri MP Ingrid Leary reflected on her years in Fiji as a television journalist and media educator at a Fiji Centre function in Auckland celebrating Fourth Estate values and independence at the weekend. It was a reunion with former journalism professor David Robie — they had worked together as a team at ... <a title="Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education gets airing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/04/fiji-coup-culture-and-political-meddling-in-media-education-gets-airing/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji coup culture and political meddling in media education gets airing">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan pro-independence fighters in West Papua has seriously threatened the security of the largely indigenous population, says Human Rights Watch in a new report. The human rights watchdog warned that all parties to the conflict are obligated to abide by international humanitarian law, ... <a title="Human Rights Watch warns renewed fighting threatens West Papua civilians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/human-rights-watch-warns-renewed-fighting-threatens-west-papua-civilians/" aria-label="Read more about Human Rights Watch warns renewed fighting threatens West Papua civilians">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I want to share a writer’s journey — of living and writing through the Genocide. Where I live and how I live could not be further from the horror playing out in Gaza and, increasingly, on the West Bank. Yet, because my country provides military, intelligence and diplomatic support to Israel ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/eugene-doyle-writing-in-the-time-of-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Writing in the time of the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
By Muhammad Shehada Since the onset of its genocide, Israel has persistently pushed a narrative that the famine devastating Gaza is not of its own making, but the result of “Hamas looting aid”. This claim, repeated across mainstream media and parroted by officials, has been used to deflect responsibility for what many human rights experts ... <a title="How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza famine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/how-israel-manufactured-a-looting-crisis-to-cover-up-its-gaza-famine/" aria-label="Read more about How Israel manufactured a looting crisis to cover up its Gaza famine">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken a new approach towards bringing justice these crimes. The Paris-based global media freedom NGO has submitted multiple formal requests to the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking that Palestinian journalists who ... <a title="Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/radical-legal-step-towards-ending-impunity-for-israel-over-killing-gaza-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell When I despairingly contemplate the horrors and cruelty that Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to, I sometimes try to put this in the context of where I live. I live on the Kāpiti Coast in the lower North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Geographically it is around the same size ... <a title="Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/why-nz-must-act-against-israels-ethnic-cleansing-and-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa has advised Samoa’s head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can move to an election. This follows the bill for the budget not getting enough support for a first reading on yesterday, and Fiame announcing she would therefore seek an early election. ... <a title="Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/samoan-pm-fiame-advises-dissolution-of-parliament-calls-for-snap-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM Fiamē advises dissolution of parliament, calls for snap elections">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2025
RNZ Pacific A United Nations committee is being urged to act over human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea. Watchdog groups Act Now! and Jubilee Australia have filed a formal request to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to consider action at its next meeting in August. “We ... <a title="Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/28/plea-for-un-intervention-over-illegal-png-loggers-stealing-forests/" aria-label="Read more about Plea for UN intervention over illegal PNG loggers ‘stealing forests’">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2025
By Stanley Simpson in Suva I am saddened by the death of one of the most inspirational Pacific women and leaders I have worked with — Motarilavoa Hilda Lini of Vanuatu. She was one of the strongest, most committed passionate fighter I know for self-determination, decolonisation, independence, indigenous rights, customary systems and a nuclear-free Pacific. ... <a title="Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/27/motarilavoa-hilda-lini-strong-passionate-fighter-for-decolonisation-nuclear-free-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Motarilavoa Hilda Lini – strong, passionate fighter for decolonisation, nuclear-free Pacific">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Eighty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the Second World War, the threat of nuclear fallout remains. Last Monday, the UN Human Rights Council issued a formal communication to the Japanese government regarding serious concerns raised by Pacific ... <a title="Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/activists-call-for-pacific-nuclear-justice-global-unity-and-victim-support/" aria-label="Read more about Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
RNZ Pacific Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, a pioneering Ni-Vanuatu politician, has died. Lini passed away at the Port Vila General Hospital on Sunday, according to local news media. Lini was the first woman to be elected to the Vanuatu Parliament in 1987 as a member of the National United Party. Motarilavoa Hilda Lini in 1989 . ... <a title="Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, has died" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/motarilavoa-hilda-lini-a-trailblazer-for-vanuatu-women-in-politics-has-died/" aria-label="Read more about Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, ‘a trailblazer’ for Vanuatu women in politics, has died">Read more</a>
