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February 24, 2024
While telling today’s Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland about creative “good news” humanitarian aid plans to help Palestinians amid the War on Gaza, New Zealand Kia Ora Gaza advocate and organiser Roger Fowler also condemned Israel’s genocidal conduct. He was interviewed by Anadolu News Agency after a Freedom Flotilla Coalition planning meeting in Istanbul with ... <a title="Kia Ora Gaza organiser condemns ‘open genocide’ in Gaza Strip" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/24/kia-ora-gaza-organiser-condemns-open-genocide-in-gaza-strip/" aria-label="Read more about Kia Ora Gaza organiser condemns ‘open genocide’ in Gaza Strip">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2024
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier Some people are literally making a killing in Enga. Yes, they really are. Hired gunmen are getting rich by the day and picking up women and girls as payments as well, leaving deaths and destruction in their wake in what is apparently becoming a booming industry. PNG POST-COURIER The news is ... <a title="Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/21/post-courier-stop-pngs-booming-death-and-destruction-industry/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: Stop PNG’s booming death and destruction industry">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has joined media freedom groups supporting Julian Assange, an Australian citizen whose unjust prosecution continues to undermine press freedoms and human rights. In light of recent developments and mounting concerns over Assange’s deteriorating health, JERAA said in a statement it had urged the ... <a title="JERAA urges US to drop spy charges – return Assange to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/18/jeraa-urges-us-to-drop-spy-charges-return-assange-to-australia/" aria-label="Read more about JERAA urges US to drop spy charges – return Assange to Australia">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is “nothing short of horrifying” — Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and prevented from working without any possibility of safe refuge, reports he Paris-based global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). RSF has strongly condemned the “eradication of journalism and the right ... <a title="War on Gaza: Palestinian journalism has been decimated with impunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/17/war-on-gaza-palestinian-journalism-has-been-decimated-with-impunity/" aria-label="Read more about War on Gaza: Palestinian journalism has been decimated with impunity">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Pacific protesters were prominent in the 17th week of Aotearoa New Zealand solidarity demonstrations for Palestine and a ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today. Flags of Fiji, Tonga and West Papua were featured alongside the sea of Palestinian banners and at least one group declared themselves as “Tongans ... <a title="Pacific protesters feature in NZ rally against Israel’s war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/pacific-protesters-feature-in-nz-rally-against-israels-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific protesters feature in NZ rally against Israel’s war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
By Karishma Kumari in Suva The University of Fiji will be offering its journalism and media studies programme at its Samabula campus from this semester. UniFiji vice-chancellor Professor Shaista Shameem said the programme started at the Saweni campus in Lautoka in 2022 with only five students and had been growing since then. She said there ... <a title="UniFiji spreads journalism, media studies courses to Samabula" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/unifiji-spreads-journalism-media-studies-courses-to-samabula/" aria-label="Read more about UniFiji spreads journalism, media studies courses to Samabula">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
Wansolwara News The University of the South Pacific journalism programme is hosting a cohort student journalists from Australia’s Queensland University of Technology this week. Led by Professor Angela Romano, the 12 students are covering news assignments in Fiji as part of their working trip. The visitors were given a briefing by USP journalism teaching staff ... <a title="Australian student journos explore Fiji media landscape with USP team" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/australian-student-journos-explore-fiji-media-landscape-with-usp-team/" aria-label="Read more about Australian student journos explore Fiji media landscape with USP team">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
The National in Port Moresby The Papua New Guinea government plans to introduce laws to curb free speech and freedom of the press, former prime minister Peter O’Neill says. In a statement, O’Neill said the same law would jail any journalist or person who published anything the government deemed to be “misreporting”. O’Neill described the ... <a title="O’Neill warns PNG about laws to crack down on media, freedom of speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/oneill-warns-png-about-laws-to-crack-down-on-media-freedom-of-speech/" aria-label="Read more about O’Neill warns PNG about laws to crack down on media, freedom of speech">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2024
RNZ News An activist organisation is accusing the Aotearoa New Zealand police of brutality after arrests were made at a pro-Palestine protest in Lyttelton today. About 60 people took part in the protest at Lyttelton Port this morning, and police said four people were arrested about 1pm after blocking traffic. Protesters had blocked a tunnel ... <a title="NZ police accused of aggression after arrests at pro-Palestine protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/06/nz-police-accused-of-aggression-after-arrests-at-pro-palestine-protest/" aria-label="Read more about NZ police accused of aggression after arrests at pro-Palestine protest">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The mother of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness, reports Al Jazeera. Dahdouh, who has become a symbol for the perseverance of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, had lost his wife Amna, son Mahmoud, daughter Sham and grandson Adam to an ... <a title="Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh’s mother dies after he wins global award" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/al-jazeeras-wael-dahdouhs-mother-dies-after-he-wins-global-award/" aria-label="Read more about Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh’s mother dies after he wins global award">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Pacific protesters were prominent in the 17th week of Aotearoa New Zealand solidarity demonstrations for Palestine and a ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today. Flags of Fiji, Tonga and West Papua were featured alongside the sea of Palestinian banners and at least one group declared themselves as “Tongans ... <a title="Pacific protesters feature in NZ demo against Israel’s war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/04/pacific-protesters-feature-in-nz-demo-against-israels-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific protesters feature in NZ demo against Israel’s war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand must ramp up pressure on Israel to abide by last month’s International Court of Justice ruling, writes John Minto. COMMENTARY: By John Minto In 2003, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s “apartheid wall” being built through Palestinian territory was a violation of international law and should be dismantled. Israel ignored ... <a title="Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide rulings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/03/pressure-must-go-on-israel-to-comply-with-world-court-genocide-rulings/" aria-label="Read more about Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide rulings">Read more</a>
