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January 17, 2024
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier Last year, the Papua New Guinea government moved in a subtle way into the Fourth Estate. It tried to — and is still trying to — find a way to curtail and restrict your access to mainstream and social media by trying to gag media organisations. Obviously, this was an ... <a title="Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/post-courier-draconian-and-dangerous-move/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Communications Minister Timothy Masiu has announced stringent measures to control social media in the country for the next 10 days of the State of Emergency. The government’s threat drew a sharp rebuke from former prime minister Peter O’Neill who called the move a “sinister fear campaign against the people” and ... <a title="Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/masiu-vows-10-day-shutdown-of-pngs-social-media-after-capital-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
RNZ News Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman — a leading voice in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament for human rights, an independent foreign policy, and justice for Occupied Palestine — was subject to “pretty much continuous” death threats and threats of violence, says party co-leader James Shaw. She has resigned as a Green Party MP ... <a title="Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/former-green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-faced-continuous-death-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times The revelation that police have carried out what is believed to be one of Fiji’s biggest drug busts after a surprise raid in Nadi at the weekend is a wake-up call for us all. Acting Police Commissioner Juki Fong Chew yesterday confirmed the raid and that ... <a title="The Fiji Times: Drug bust a chilling wake-up call for Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/the-fiji-times-drug-bust-a-chilling-wake-up-call-for-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: Drug bust a chilling wake-up call for Fiji">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Fiji human rights activists have paid tribute in a Suva vigil this week to the more than 100 journalists — most of them Palestinian — killed in Israel’s War on Gaza. The NGO Coalition on Human Rights (NGOCHR) staged a #ThursdaysInBlack vigil to remember the dead journalists, but only one local Fiji ... <a title="Fiji human rights activists pay tribute to slain Gaza journalists, but shunned by local media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/fiji-human-rights-activists-pay-tribute-to-slain-gaza-journalists-but-shunned-by-local-media/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji human rights activists pay tribute to slain Gaza journalists, but shunned by local media">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The US has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city of Sanaa. This comes a day after US and UK airstrikes on Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on Red Sea commercial vessels. For weeks Yemen’s Houthi forces have been ... <a title="Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into accepting the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/13/peace-doesnt-come-by-trying-to-bludgeon-the-middle-east-into-accepting-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into accepting the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2024
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, assesses Israeli defence submitted at the ICJ over South Africa’s genocide allegations. Image: AJ Pacific Media Watch Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says Israel’s legal team “started off weak” but made a few strong points near the end. Bishara said the lawyers’ efforts at the genocide ... <a title="Israel’s ‘illogical’ legal defence off to weak start, says analyst Bishara" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/13/israels-illogical-legal-defence-off-to-weak-start-says-analyst-bishara/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s ‘illogical’ legal defence off to weak start, says analyst Bishara">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report South Africa has accused Israel of “genocidal intent” over its war on the besieged enclave Gaza Strip, and pleaded with judges at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an interim order demanding Israel halt its military offensive in the embattled territory, reports Middle East Eye. South African lawyer Adila ... <a title="South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/12/south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-over-gaza-chilling-in-detail/" aria-label="Read more about South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2024
By Miriam Zarriga and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Fires from the 24-hour spate of looting, rioting and mayhem in Papua New Guinea’s Port Moresby — the worst ever social unrest in the city — have all but subsided into skeletal remains of ash and buildings in National Capital District (NCD). The smoke has cleared ... <a title="Aftermath of Port Moresby looting, rioting – 14-day state of emergency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/12/aftermath-of-port-moresby-looting-rioting-14-day-state-of-emergency/" aria-label="Read more about Aftermath of Port Moresby looting, rioting – 14-day state of emergency">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone How is anyone still talking about October 7? What Israel has done since October 7 is many times worse than what happened on that day by any conceivable metric; the only way to feel otherwise is to believe Israeli lives are worth many times more than Palestinian lives. How is Israeli ... <a title="This genocide is being live-streamed. We can’t say we didn’t know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/this-genocide-is-being-live-streamed-we-cant-say-we-didnt-know/" aria-label="Read more about This genocide is being live-streamed. We can’t say we didn’t know">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2024
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our times. The latest assassination of an Al Jazeera photojournalist yesterday while documenting atrocities has prompted a leading analyst to appeal to global journalists to “take a stand” to protect the ... <a title="Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/09/journalists-need-to-take-a-stand-over-the-gaza-carnage-after-latest-killings/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
By Khalia Strong Barbara Dreaver is a familiar face on Aotearoa New Zealand television screens, beloved to some, and feared by others who have been exposed by her work across three decades. Dreaver has been named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Years Honours list, for services to investigative ... <a title="Pacific journalists are strong and ‘it’s up to us’, says honoured Barbara Dreaver" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/pacific-journalists-are-strong-and-its-up-to-us-says-honoured-barbara-dreaver/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific journalists are strong and ‘it’s up to us’, says honoured Barbara Dreaver">Read more</a>
