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May 22, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A West Papua independence leader says escalating violence is forcing indigenous Papuans to flee their ancestral lands. It comes as the Indonesian military claims 18 members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) were killed in an hour-long operation in Intan Jaya on May 14. In a statement, ... <a title="Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/indonesian-military-operations-spark-concerns-over-displaced-indigenous-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
Al Jazeera How global power struggles are impacting in local communities, culture and sovereignty in Kanaky, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Samoa. In episode one, The Battlefield, tensions between the United States and China over the Pacific escalate, affecting the lives of Pacific Islanders. Key figures like former Malaita Premier Daniel Suidani and tour ... <a title="The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1: The Battlefield" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/the-west-v-china-fight-for-the-pacific-episode-1-the-battlefield/" aria-label="Read more about The West v China: Fight for the Pacific – Episode 1: The Battlefield">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade has led to widespread starvation among the territory’s two million residents. Belatedly, Israel is letting in a token amount of food aid that UN Under-Secretary Tom Fletcher has called a ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/gordon-campbell-nzs-silence-over-gaza-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
New Zealand has joined 22 other countries and the European Union in calling for Israel to allow a full resumption of aid into Gaza immediately. The partners also said Israel must enable the United Nations and humanitarian organisations to work independently and impartially “to save lives, reduce suffering, and maintain dignity.” Israel imposed a blockade ... <a title="NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/nz-joins-call-for-israel-to-allow-full-resumption-of-aid-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid to Gaza">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Pacific Media Watch American film star celebrity John Cusack, who describes himself on his x-page bio as an “apocalyptic shit-disturber”, has posted an open letter to the world denouncing the Israeli “mass murder” in Gaza and calling for “your outrage”. While warning the public to “don’t stop talking about Palestine/Gaza”, he says that the “hollow ... <a title="Open letter from John Cusack: ‘The children of Gaza need your outrage – end the siege’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/open-letter-from-john-cusack-the-children-of-gaza-need-your-outrage-end-the-siege/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter from John Cusack: ‘The children of Gaza need your outrage – end the siege’">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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May 18, 2025
Asia Pacific Report About 2000 New Zealand protesters marched through the heart of Auckland city today chanting “no justice, no peace” and many other calls as they demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli atrocities in its brutal war on the besieged Palestinian enclave. For more than 73 days, Israel ... <a title="‘Cracks are opening up’ in Western complicity over Gaza genocide, says Minto" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/18/cracks-are-opening-up-in-western-complicity-over-gaza-genocide-says-minto/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Cracks are opening up’ in Western complicity over Gaza genocide, says Minto">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Fiji’s coalition government are “detached from the values that Fijians hold dear”, says the NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji (NGOCHR). The rights coalition has expressed deep concern over Rabuka’s ongoing engagements with Indonesia. “History will judge how we respond as Fijians to this ... <a title="Fiji rights coalition slams ‘betrayal’ of West Papua for Indonesian benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/17/fiji-rights-coalition-slams-betrayal-of-west-papua-for-indonesian-benefits/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji rights coalition slams ‘betrayal’ of West Papua for Indonesian benefits">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An Australian solidarity group for West Papuan self-determination has called on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to raise the human rights crisis in the Melanesian region with the Indonesian president this week. Albanese is visiting Indonesia for two days from tomorrow. AWPA has written a letter to Albanese making the appeal for ... <a title="AWPA calls on Albanese to raise West Papuan human rights with Prabowo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/13/awpa-calls-on-albanese-to-raise-west-papuan-human-rights-with-prabowo/" aria-label="Read more about AWPA calls on Albanese to raise West Papuan human rights with Prabowo">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A group of New Zealand academics at Otago University have drawn up a “Declaration on Palestine” against genocide, apartheid and scholasticide of Palestinians by Israel that has illegally occupied their indigenous lands for more than seven decades. The document, which had already drawn more than 300 signatures from staff, students and alumni ... <a title="Otago academics plan declaration on Palestine to ‘face daily horrors’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/12/otago-academics-plan-declaration-on-palestine-to-face-daily-horrors/" aria-label="Read more about Otago academics plan declaration on Palestine to ‘face daily horrors’">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2025
Fresh, stringent security measures have been imposed in New Caledonia following aborted political talks last week and ahead of the first anniversary of the deadly riots that broke out on 13 May 2024, which resulted in 14 deaths and 2.2 billion euros (NZ$4.2 billion) in damages. On Sunday, the French High Commission in Nouméa announced ... <a title="France tightens security for riots anniversary after aborted New Caledonia political talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/12/france-tightens-security-for-riots-anniversary-after-aborted-new-caledonia-political-talks/" aria-label="Read more about France tightens security for riots anniversary after aborted New Caledonia political talks">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The escalation of violence in West Papua is on par with some of the most intense times of conflict over the past six decades, a human rights researcher says. The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) claims that Indonesia killed at least one civilian and severely injured another ... <a title="‘Fighting more frequent now’ – researcher warns of escalating West Papua conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/12/fighting-more-frequent-now-researcher-warns-of-escalating-west-papua-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Fighting more frequent now’ – researcher warns of escalating West Papua conflict">Read more</a>
