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July 21, 2022
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s Ombudsman Luamanuvao Katalaina Sapolu says the human rights effects from the covid-19 pandemic have been catastrophic. She has just submitted Samoa’s eighth State of Human Rights Report to Parliament. Luamanuvao said that over the past two years families had lost loved ones, businesses suffered, unemployment rates increased, and freedom of movement was ... <a title="Pandemic effect on human rights ‘catastrophic’, says Samoan report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/21/pandemic-effect-on-human-rights-catastrophic-says-samoan-report/" aria-label="Read more about Pandemic effect on human rights ‘catastrophic’, says Samoan report">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2022
By Geraldine Panapasa in Suva Climate change remains the single greatest existential threat facing the Blue Pacific, as leaders concluded the biggest diplomatic regional meeting in Suva last week with a plea for the world to take urgent action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. While renewed commitments by Australia to reduce its carbon ... <a title="Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/pacific-leaders-call-on-world-to-take-urgent-climate-action-for-island-regions-survival/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders call on world to take urgent climate action for island region’s ‘survival’">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2022
By Reiner Brabar in Jayapura Papua People’s Petition (PRP) protesters have braved brutal police blockades, forced dispersals and assaults while staging simultaneous mass actions across Papua. The actions were held on Thursday to demonstrate the people’s opposition to revisions of the Special Autonomy Law on Papua (Otsus), the creation of new autonomous regions (DOB) and ... <a title="Papua People’s Petition protesters hold rallies against new Papuan provinces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/17/papua-peoples-petition-protesters-hold-rallies-against-new-papuan-provinces/" aria-label="Read more about Papua People’s Petition protesters hold rallies against new Papuan provinces">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2022
RNZ Pacific The media has been taken to task for doom-laden climate crisis presentations in a speech at an international workshop — and told to tell the full story. Former Marshall Islands president Hilda Heine made the comments as the keynote speaker at the recent East West Centre’s international media conference in Hawai’i. She said ... <a title="Media warned over ‘doom-laden’ climate change narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/16/media-warned-over-doom-laden-climate-change-narrative/" aria-label="Read more about Media warned over ‘doom-laden’ climate change narrative">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
By Rusiate Baleilevuka in Suva A Fiji women’s advocacy group has condemned their government for remaining silent over the human rights violations in West Papua amid the Pacific Islands Forum being hosted by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainmarama this week. Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) coordinator Shamima Ali with other staff members and activists made the ... <a title="Fiji women condemn Bainimarama government’s ‘silence’ on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/fiji-women-condemn-bainimarama-governments-silence-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji women condemn Bainimarama government’s ‘silence’ on West Papua">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
RNZ Pacific The Pacific Islands Forum has launched a new longterm strategy to address present and future challenges faced by Pacific peoples. The “2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent” was endorsed by regional heads of governments as the curtains fell on the 51st Forum Leaders’ summit in Suva. “As Pacific leaders, our vision is ... <a title="Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/pacific-islands-forum-launches-new-2050-strategic-blueprint/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2022
ANALYSIS: The restrictions on Pacific news media during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent Pacific trip are only the most recent example of a media sector under siege, writes Shailendra Singh. For the Pacific news media sector, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent eight-nation South Pacific tour may be over, but it should not be ... <a title="How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/14/how-chinas-creeping-influence-undermines-pacific-media-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about How China’s creeping influence undermines Pacific media freedom">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2022
RNZ Pacific The president of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua, Benny Wenda, has arrived to a warm welcome in Port Vila from London where he is based. Representatives of the Vanuatu West Papua Independence Committee, who are organising his trip, made sure the media was present only during a welcome ceremony at the ... <a title="Vanuatu offers warm welcome to Papuan independence campaigner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/07/vanuatu-offers-warm-welcome-to-papuan-independence-campaigner/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu offers warm welcome to Papuan independence campaigner">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific France’s abolition of the status of an overseas minister has received mixed reactions in both France and its overseas territories, with a pro-independence Tahitian member of the National Assembly condemning the “bad signal”. The position was abolished in yesterday’s government reshuffle and replaced with a minister delegate, a post given to Jean-Francois Carenco. ... <a title="Tahitian pro-independence MP slams ‘bad signal’ for French Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/tahitian-pro-independence-mp-slams-bad-signal-for-french-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian pro-independence MP slams ‘bad signal’ for French Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Benny Wenda We celebrated the 51st anniversary of the independence declaration of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) at Markas Victoria on July 1, 1971. The declaration, signed by Seth Rumkoren and Jacob Prai — who sadly passed away last month — was a direct rejection of Indonesian colonialism. It sent a powerful message ... <a title="OPM day – celebrating the 1971 Papuan ‘independence proklamasi’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/opm-day-celebrating-the-1971-papuan-independence-proklamasi/" aria-label="Read more about OPM day – celebrating the 1971 Papuan ‘independence proklamasi’">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Greenpeace Aotearoa has condemned New Zealand for “standing by” while “deep wounds are inflicted on its Pacific neighbours” by silence over deep sea mining. Greenpeace’s seabed mining campaigner James Hita made the critical statement today after a dramatic shift at the UN Oceans conference in Lisbon this week when several Pacific ... <a title="Greenpeace condemns NZ silence on Pacific deep sea mining risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/02/greenpeace-condemns-nz-silence-on-pacific-deep-sea-mining-risks/" aria-label="Read more about Greenpeace condemns NZ silence on Pacific deep sea mining risks">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2022
Tabloid Jubi The Civil Organisations Solidarity for Papua Land has condemned Indonesia’s Papua expansion plan of forming three new provinces risks causing new social conflicts. And the group has urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to cancel the plan, according to a statement reports Jubi. The group — comprising the Papua Legal Aid Institute (LBH Papua), ... <a title="Civil group appeals to Jokowi to cancel Papuan expansion plan to ‘halt conflict’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/30/civil-group-appeals-to-jokowi-to-cancel-papuan-expansion-plan-to-halt-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about Civil group appeals to Jokowi to cancel Papuan expansion plan to ‘halt conflict’">Read more</a>
