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September 2, 2022
RNZ Pacific Seven people have been found guilty of “treason” after raising the banned Morning Star flag in West Papua, a Melanesian region of Indonesia. In the Jayapura District Court this week, the seven were each jailed for 10 months and fined. The flag is considered a symbol of the West Papua struggle for independence ... <a title="Seven West Papuans jailed for raising banned Morning Star flag" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/seven-west-papuans-jailed-for-raising-banned-morning-star-flag/" aria-label="Read more about Seven West Papuans jailed for raising banned Morning Star flag">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The co-founder of Tabloid Jubi, Victor Mambor has been presented with the 2022 Udin Award from Indonesia’s Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) during the organisation’s 28th-anniversary celebration. Mambor is an indigenous Papuan journalist who has dedicated his life for decades to the field of journalism. The Udin Award — presented last ... <a title="Papuan journalist Victor Mambor wins Udin Award for ‘dedicated journalism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/papuan-journalist-victor-mambor-wins-udin-award-for-dedicated-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan journalist Victor Mambor wins Udin Award for ‘dedicated journalism’">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2022
By Laurens Ikinia “Noa’ia ‘e” is a greeting people hear when you meet anyone from the island of Rotuma in Fiji or when they visit the Whānau Community Hub in Auckland’s Mount Roskill. This doubles as the Rotuman-Fijian Community Centre. It is run by Rachel Mario and her team for a whole host of purposes ... <a title="Rotuman social justice advocate puts key bid for Roskill Community Voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/02/rotuman-social-justice-advocate-puts-key-bid-for-roskill-community-voice/" aria-label="Read more about Rotuman social justice advocate puts key bid for Roskill Community Voice">Read more</a>
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September 1, 2022
By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier The Conflict group of islands in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay province cannot be sold to foreign interests, Parliament has been told. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Lands John Rosso said yesterday the privately-owned controversial islands would instead be turned into an environmental marine conservation area. Irked ... <a title="PNG orders investigation into Conflict islands ‘sale’ – no deal, says Rosso" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/01/png-orders-investigation-into-conflict-islands-sale-no-deal-says-rosso/" aria-label="Read more about PNG orders investigation into Conflict islands ‘sale’ – no deal, says Rosso">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has condemned the brutal killing and mutilation of four indigenous West Papuans last week, saying it was a “a reminder of Indonesian colonialism”, as authorities announced the arrest of six special forces suspects. News agency reports said Indonesian security forces had arrested the six ... <a title="Killing of four West Papuans ‘brutal reminder of reality’ under Jakarta rule, says Wenda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/31/killing-of-four-west-papuans-brutal-reminder-of-reality-under-jakarta-rule-says-wenda/" aria-label="Read more about Killing of four West Papuans ‘brutal reminder of reality’ under Jakarta rule, says Wenda">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2022
RNZ News Māori, Pasifika, Asian, as well as disabled and bisexual employees, are disproportionately affected by bullying and harassment in workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand, according to new research out today. More than a third of respondents to a Human Rights Commission survey say they have experienced some form of harassment at work in the ... <a title="‘High prevalence’ of racial harassment in NZ workplace, says new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/29/high-prevalence-of-racial-harassment-in-nz-workplace-says-new-research/" aria-label="Read more about ‘High prevalence’ of racial harassment in NZ workplace, says new research">Read more</a>
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August 29, 2022
RNZ Pacific The President of New Caledonia’s Congress Roch Wamytan is set to be re-elected for another one-year term after the party holding the balance of power said it would again vote for him next week. The ethnic Wallisian and Futunan party, Pacific Awakening, has confirmed its decision to vote for Wamytan of the pro-independence ... <a title="New Caledonia’s Roch Wamytan set to be re-elected Congress president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/29/new-caledonias-roch-wamytan-set-to-be-re-elected-congress-president/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s Roch Wamytan set to be re-elected Congress president">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The ABC has soundly condemned the Solomon Islands Office of the Prime Minister for a series of “factual errors” in a statement released which criticised the Four Corners investigative report Pacific Capture: How Chinese money is buying the Solomons. In a rare statement defending its independent journalism, it said today the ... <a title="ABC blasts Honiara for ‘factual errors’ in attack over Pacific Capture doco" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/25/abc-blasts-honiara-for-factual-errors-in-attack-over-pacific-capture-doco/" aria-label="Read more about ABC blasts Honiara for ‘factual errors’ in attack over Pacific Capture doco">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
By Rebecca Kuku of The National, PNG One of the survivors of a horrifying sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) attack and torture of nine women in Papua New Guinea falsely accused last month of using sorcery to kill a leading businessman tells her story of survival. She does not want to be named as the situation ... <a title="‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to die too’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/her-screams-pierced-our-hearts-i-knew-i-was-going-to-die-too/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to die too’">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2022
IndoLeft News Indonesia’s Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy says that the presidential decree (Keppres) on the formation of a team for the non-judicial resolution of past gross human rights violations — signed recently by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo — will reinforce impunity and absolve perpetrators of past human rights violations. According to Setara Institute ... <a title="Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/20/jokowi-accused-of-whitewashing-rights-crimes-in-latest-impunity-decree/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya Sixty years ago today — on 15 August 1962 — the fate of a newly born nation-state West Papua was stolen by men in New York. The infamous event is known as “The New Agreement”, a deal between the Netherlands and Indonesia over West Papua’s sovereignty. A different fate had been ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/yamin-kogoya-west-papuas-colonial-fate-un-new-york-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: West Papua’s colonial fate – UN ‘New York Agreement’">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Paul Wolffram It was at the end of a long day of walking back and forth over the dusty roads of Goroka town in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea that I first met Evelyn. I’d spent the morning interviewing three inmates in the regional penitentiary, Bihute Prison, about their participation in the ... <a title="Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/paul-wolffram-resisting-sorcery-violence-in-png-from-the-grasruts/" aria-label="Read more about Paul Wolffram: Resisting sorcery violence in PNG from the ‘grasruts’">Read more</a>
