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June 8, 2025
Pacific Media Watch More than 150 press freedom advocacy groups and international newsrooms have joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in issuing a public appeal demanding that Israel grant foreign journalists immediate, independent and unrestricted access to the Gaza Strip. The organisations are also calling for the full protection ... <a title="Gaza plea: RSF, CPJ and 150+ media outlets call on Israel to open Strip to foreign journalists, protect Palestinian reporters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/08/gaza-plea-rsf-cpj-and-150-media-outlets-call-on-israel-to-open-strip-to-foreign-journalists-protect-palestinian-reporters/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza plea: RSF, CPJ and 150+ media outlets call on Israel to open Strip to foreign journalists, protect Palestinian reporters">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2025
Pacific Media Watch One of the 12 activists on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid vessel Madleen has posted an update on their progress, saying the mission would not be deterred by Israel’s threats to block them. In a video posted to X, Thiago Ávila said the crew, which includes high-profile Swedish climate activist Greta ... <a title="‘They cannot block us,’ says activist on Madleen flotilla aid ship to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/07/they-cannot-block-us-says-activist-on-madleen-flotilla-aid-ship-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They cannot block us,’ says activist on Madleen flotilla aid ship to Gaza">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2025
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal, and RNZ Pacific correspondent A new report on the United States nuclear weapons testing legacy in the Marshall Islands highlights the lack of studies into important health concerns voiced by Marshallese for decades that make it impossible to have a clear understanding of the impacts of the 67 ... <a title="Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/06/marshall-islands-nuclear-legacy-report-highlights-lack-of-health-research/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands nuclear legacy: report highlights lack of health research">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2025
By Scholar Kassas in Port Moresby A Papua New Guinea minister has raised concerns about “serious issues” at the PNG-Indonesia border due to a lack of proper security checkpoints. Culture and Tourism Minister Belden Namah, who is also the member for the border electorate Vanimo-Green, voiced these concerns while supporting a new Biosecurity for Plants ... <a title="PNG’s Namah calls for tighter bio controls, patrols on Indonesian border" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/03/pngs-namah-calls-for-tighter-bio-controls-patrols-on-indonesian-border/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Namah calls for tighter bio controls, patrols on Indonesian border">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 1, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s the result of government policy — knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated.” This statement was made not by a foreign or liberal critic of Israel but by the former Prime Minister ... <a title="Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people, children it’s killing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/01/phil-goff-israel-doesnt-care-how-many-innocent-people-children-its-killing/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people, children it’s killing">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Who, neither politician nor monarch, executed 100,000 civilians in a single night? Answer: Curtis LeMay, American Air Force General, in the wee hours of 10 March 1945. While authorised by his immediate superior, this firebombing of Tokyo was a decentralised military operation which received subsequent popular approval. It was called ‘Operation ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Who, neither politician nor monarch, executed 100,000 civilians in a single night?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/30/keith-rankin-analysis-who-neither-politician-nor-monarch-executed-100000-civilians-in-a-single-night/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Who, neither politician nor monarch, executed 100,000 civilians in a single night?">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 27, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. People of a certain age will be aware that the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis was, for the world as a whole, the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. The 1962 ‘Battle of Cuba’ was a ‘cold battle’ in the same sense that the Cold War was a ‘cold war’. (Only ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Using Cuba 1962 to explain Trump’s brinkmanship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/27/keith-rankin-analysis-using-cuba-1962-to-explain-trumps-brinkmanship/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Using Cuba 1962 to explain Trump’s brinkmanship">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2025
Samoan-Kiwi filmmaker Tuki Laumea checks in with indigenous communities in 10 Pacific nations for a new Al Jazeera documentary series, reports RNZ Saturday Morning. RNZ News As the Pacific region becomes a battleground for global power-play, many island nations are still fighting for basic sovereignty and autonomy, says Pacific filmmaker Tuki Laumea. Pacific leaders are ... <a title="While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for basic sovereignty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/while-pacific-is-target-of-geopolitics-many-nations-still-fight-for-basic-sovereignty/" aria-label="Read more about While Pacific is target of geopolitics, many nations still fight for basic sovereignty">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Protesting New Zealanders donned symbolic masks modelled on a Palestinian artist’s handiwork in Auckland’s Takutai Square today to condemn Israel’s starvation as war weapon against Gaza and the NZ prime minister’s weak response. Coming a day after the tabling of Budget 2025 in Parliament, peaceful demonstrators wore hand-painted masks inspired by Gaza-based ... <a title="‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/starving-masked-palestine-protesters-condemn-luxons-gaza-appeasement/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On 11 April 2025, AP noted that the two-year-old Civil War in Sudan is regarded by the United Nations as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis”, though it is grossly underreported (see Wake up: The Worst Humanitarian Crisis on Earth is in Sudan, by Shirley Martey Hargis and Mike Sexton, Third Way ... <a title="Keith Rankin on the War in Sudan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/keith-rankin-on-the-war-in-sudan/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on the War in Sudan">Read more</a>
