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February 22, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist Last week, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said Aotearoa’s immigration settings were “no way to treat our Pacific cousins”. “All Pacific people want is a fair go, equivalent to what other nations are getting, and they’re not getting it,” he said outside Parliament. While Peters’ ... <a title="Climate-related migration: Is New Zealand living up to the ‘Pacific family’ rhetoric?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/22/climate-related-migration-is-new-zealand-living-up-to-the-pacific-family-rhetoric/" aria-label="Read more about Climate-related migration: Is New Zealand living up to the ‘Pacific family’ rhetoric?">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The global civil society alliance Civicus has called on eight Pacific governments to do more to respect civic freedoms and strengthen institutions to protect these rights. It is especially concerned over the threats to press freedom, the use of laws to criminalise online expression, and failure to establish national human rights institutions ... <a title="Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/26/civicus-raps-8-pacific-countries-for-not-doing-enough-to-protect-civic-rights-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A Marshall Islands lawmaker has called on Pacific legislatures to establish and strengthen their national human rights commissions to help address the region’s nuclear testing legacy. “Our people in the Marshall Islands carry voices of our lives that are shaped by this nuclear legacy,” ... <a title="Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/pacific-lawmakers-call-for-creation-of-human-rights-commissions-to-fight-nuclear-testing-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Amnesty International is asking the New Zealand government to create a new humanitarian visa for Pacific people impacted by climate change. Kiribati community leader Charles Kiata said life on Kiribati was becoming extremely hard as sea levels rose and the country was hit by more severe storms, higher temperatures ... <a title="Amnesty International wants NZ visa for climate-hit Pacific islanders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/11/amnesty-international-wants-nz-visa-for-climate-hit-pacific-islanders/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty International wants NZ visa for climate-hit Pacific islanders">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2025
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal Author David Robie and Little Island Press are about to publish next week a 40th anniversary edition of Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, a first-hand account of the relocation of the Rongelap people by Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior in ... <a title="Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire edition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/04/eyewitness-account-of-rainbow-warrior-voyage-new-eyes-of-fire-edition/" aria-label="Read more about Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire edition">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2025
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro The Micronesian Islands Forum cranks up with officials meetings this week in Majuro, with the official opening for top leadership from the islands tomorrow morning. Marshall Islands leaders are being joined at this summit by their counterparts from Kiribati, Nauru, Federated States of Micronesia, ... <a title="Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step ahead’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/01/micronesian-summit-in-majuro-this-week-aims-to-be-one-step-ahead/" aria-label="Read more about Micronesian Summit in Majuro this week aims to be ‘one step ahead’">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Australia has launched the world’s first UN Police Peacekeeping Training course tailored specifically for the Pacific region. The five-week programme, hosted by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), is underway at the state-of-the-art Pacific Policing Development and Coordination Hub in Pinkenba, Brisbane. AFP said “a landmark step” was developed in partnership with the United Nations, and ... <a title="Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/australia-launches-landmark-un-police-peacekeeping-course-for-pacific-region/" aria-label="Read more about Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2025
MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter By the time US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on China and Canada last Monday which could kickstart a trade war, New Zealand’s diplomats in Washington, DC, had already been deployed on another diplomatic drama. Republican Senator Ted Cruz had said on social media it was “difficult to ... <a title="Mediawatch: NZ media in the middle of Asia-Pacific diplomatic drama" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/09/mediawatch-nz-media-in-the-middle-of-asia-pacific-diplomatic-drama/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: NZ media in the middle of Asia-Pacific diplomatic drama">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, 1News Pacific correspondent There has rightly been much debate and analysis over New Zealand’s decision to review the aid it gives to Kiribati. It’s a big deal. So much is at stake, especially for the I-Kiribati people who live with many challenges and depend on the $100 million aid projects New ... <a title="NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau’s inability to engage with NZ difficult to defend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/01/nz-kiribati-fallout-maamaus-inability-to-engage-with-nz-difficult-to-defend/" aria-label="Read more about NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau’s inability to engage with NZ difficult to defend">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2025
A NZ-born Kiribati member of Parliament, Ruth Cross Kwansing, has tried to bring in some Pacific common sense into the diplomatic tiff between her country and Aotearoa New Zealand. Her original title on her social media posting was “A storm in a teacup: Kiribati, New Zealand and a misunderstanding over diplomacy”. COMMENTARY: By Ruth Cross ... <a title="NZ- Kiribati fallout: A ‘Pacific way’ perspective on the Peters spat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/31/nz-kiribati-fallout-a-pacific-way-perspective-on-the-peters-spat/" aria-label="Read more about NZ- Kiribati fallout: A ‘Pacific way’ perspective on the Peters spat">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2025
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Bulletin editor/presenter Kiribati President Taneti Maamau was unable to meet New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters because he had “a pre-planned and significant historical event”, a Cabinet minister in Kiribati says. Alexander Teabo, Education Minister in Maamau’s government, told RNZ Pacific that “it is important for the truth to be ... <a title="NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau govt minister says ‘impacts to be felt by the people’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/28/nz-kiribati-fallout-maamau-govt-minister-says-impacts-to-be-felt-by-the-people/" aria-label="Read more about NZ-Kiribati fallout: Maamau govt minister says ‘impacts to be felt by the people’">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2025
RNZ Pacific Foreign Minister Winston Peters has confirmed New Zealand’s aid for Kiribati is being reviewed after its President and Foreign Minister cancelled a meeting with him last week. Terms of Reference for the review are still being finalised, and it remains unclear whether or not funding will be cut or projects already under way ... <a title="NZ aid for Kiribati under review after meeting cancelled with Peters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/27/nz-aid-for-kiribati-under-review-after-meeting-cancelled-with-peters/" aria-label="Read more about NZ aid for Kiribati under review after meeting cancelled with Peters">Read more</a>
