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August 27, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A West Papuan journalist, editor and media freedom advocate has lodged a protest to the United Nations about Indonesia’s internet blackout as more protests reportedly spread across the Melanesian region, including Wamena in the highlands. Victor Mambor and Tabloid Jubi have made the protest with the help of human rights lawyers ... <a title="Papua free media advocate files UN ‘blackout’ plea, targeted by hacker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/papua-free-media-advocate-files-un-blackout-plea-targeted-by-hacker/" aria-label="Read more about Papua free media advocate files UN ‘blackout’ plea, targeted by hacker">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2019
ANALYSIS: By David Robie Indonesia’s harsh policies towards West Papua ought to be scrapped. Whatever happened to the brief window of enlightenment ushered in by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in 2015 with promises of a more “open door” policy towards foreign journalists and human rights groups? They were supposed to be seeing for themselves the ... <a title="West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/25/west-papuas-road-to-independence-following-the-timorese-lead/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua’s road to ‘independence’, following the Timorese lead?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2019
By Michael Andrew The Indonesian media is contributing to resentment and racism toward Papuans, according to a human rights researcher and former journalist. Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch Jakarta told Pacific Media Watch many Indonesian journalists either view Papuans as enemy “separatists” or deviants and their reporting tends to convey these stereotypes. Papuan anger has erupted in ... <a title="Indonesian journalists ‘bought, broken and soul searching’, says researcher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/24/indonesian-journalists-bought-broken-and-soul-searching-says-researcher/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian journalists ‘bought, broken and soul searching’, says researcher">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Rioting broke out in Manokwari, West Papua, today as local people – mostly university students – protested against racial abuse of Papuan students in East Java, reports The Jakarta Post. The protesters blocked a number of major streets in the city this morning, cutting down trees to be used as barricades. ... <a title="‘Racist’ attack on Papuan students in Surabaya sparks rioting in Manokwari" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/20/racist-attack-on-papuan-students-in-surabaya-sparks-rioting-in-manokwari/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Racist’ attack on Papuan students in Surabaya sparks rioting in Manokwari">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
By Ghinan Salman in Surabaya As many as 43 Papuan students were taken to the district police headquarters after Indonesian police fired teargas and forced their way into a student dormitory in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya at the weekend. The Papuan students were forcibly removed from their dormitory on Jl Kalasan yesterday ... <a title="Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/indonesian-police-raid-papuan-student-dormitory-with-tear-gas-arrest-43/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Australia’s coal policy and its use of carry over credits to fulfill its obligations under the Paris Agreement have come under fire and been major points of contention at this year’s 50th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Meeting in Funafuti, Tuvalu. READ MORE: ‘We should have done more for our people’ – Forum climate change fight ... <a title="‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/bullying-australia-disregards-pacific-over-climate-crisis-says-350-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk By Makereta Komai in Funafuti, Tuvalu Tonga’s Prime Minister, ‘Akilisi Pohiva, has delivered a stinging attack against regionalism and the Pacific Islands Forum’s stance of leaving no one behind, for failing to amicably resolve the issue of West Papua. Pohiva admitted the issue has divided the 18 members of the Forum ... <a title="Tongan PM blasts Pacific regionalism ‘myth’ and silence over West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/tongan-pm-blasts-pacific-regionalism-myth-and-silence-over-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Tongan PM blasts Pacific regionalism ‘myth’ and silence over West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk An American journalist working in the Philippines on indigenous environmental and human rights issues has been shot and critically wounded while fetching his daughter from school in the northern province of Ifugao, according to his news media outlet and other press reports, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The New ... <a title="American environmental journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/11/american-environmental-journalist-shot-critically-wounded-in-philippines/" aria-label="Read more about American environmental journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2019
By Michael Andrew Flags. The occupation at Ihumātao is a spectacle of them. In every direction they flutter. Alongside tino rangatiratanga – the Māori flag of independence, Samoan colours fly. Next to the United Tribes of New Zealand banner, a Tongan flag quivers. A Niuean flag stands tall on Te Puketaapapatanga ā Hape – the ... <a title="The call of Ihumātao: Migrant communities alongside Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/10/the-call-of-ihumatao-migrant-communities-alongside-maori/" aria-label="Read more about The call of Ihumātao: Migrant communities alongside Māori">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Indigenous Pacific knowledge should inform the science to save the world’s oceans. That was the consensus among Pacific ocean scientists and other regional stakeholders who gathered in New Caledonia recently for the first global workshop aimed at arresting the decline of the world’s oceans. RNZ’s Dominic Godfrey was there. LISTEN: Indigenous Pacific ... <a title="Indigenous Pacific knowledge to help save the ocean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/09/indigenous-pacific-knowledge-to-help-save-the-ocean/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous Pacific knowledge to help save the ocean">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre’s Del Abcede joined the Ihumātao “protectors” protest at the weekend to soak up the atmosphere of guardianship over the future of the sacred indigenous Māori site. Fletcher Building plans to build 480 homes on the site but work has been suspended by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern while ... <a title="Gallery: Guardianship photo shoot with the Ihumātao ‘protectors’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/04/gallery-guardianship-photo-shoot-with-the-ihumatao-protectors/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: Guardianship photo shoot with the Ihumātao ‘protectors’">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2019
By Charlotte Muru-Lanning in Auckland Controversial social media pages belonging to the New Zealand iwi opposing the occupation at Ihumātao were shut down this morning. The Twitter and Facebook pages named “Protecting Ihumātao” were set up by Te Kawerau a Maki, the Auckland iwi opposing the occupation lead by the SOUL group at Ihumātao. The ... <a title="Iwi against Ihumātao occupation social media pages shut down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/02/iwi-against-ihumatao-occupation-social-media-pages-shut-down/" aria-label="Read more about Iwi against Ihumātao occupation social media pages shut down">Read more</a>
