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September 14, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Carmen Parahi Since 2001, I’ve worked in both mainstream news and Māori media. I love journalism but it’s a hard slog being a Māori reporter. In the mainstream news, Māori reporters are a minority, Māori stories and voices aren’t given a similar priority to other stories unless it’s adversarial. This is problematic because ... <a title="Carmen Parahi: The Fourth Estate needs to be aware of how it supports inequity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/14/carmen-parahi-the-fourth-estate-needs-to-be-aware-of-how-it-supports-inequity/" aria-label="Read more about Carmen Parahi: The Fourth Estate needs to be aware of how it supports inequity">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter Allegations of casual and structural racism within the University of Waikato have been met with resounding silence from the university’s leaders, Professor of Indigenous Education Linda Tuhiwai Smith says. She is one of six academics who have written a 13-page letter to the Ministry of ... <a title="Academics call for action over ‘racism’ allegations at University of Waikato" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/academics-call-for-action-over-racism-allegations-at-university-of-waikato/" aria-label="Read more about Academics call for action over ‘racism’ allegations at University of Waikato">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director, Professor David Robie, has described as an Orwellian example of the “tyranny of algorithms”. The news item, published by the International Federation of Journalists on its Asia-Pacific website, reported the ... <a title="PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/pmc-protests-to-facebook-over-censored-west-papua-news-item/" aria-label="Read more about PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2020
The New Zealand Herald recently published a column which criticises its own record on race. Teuila Fuatai explains why she felt she had to call out the paper that commissioned her. In the column, freelance journalist Teuila Fuatai detailed her concerns about the Herald’s record on race and her efforts to raise those with her editors. ... <a title="RNZ Mediawatch: Forcing the issue of race at the Herald" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/05/rnz-mediawatch-forcing-the-issue-of-race-at-the-herald/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Mediawatch: Forcing the issue of race at the Herald">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Miss Universe NZ 2019 beauty queen Diamond Langi is being trolled by thousands of Indonesians on social media for speaking up about discrimination against West Papuans. “The post I had made was #FreeWestPapua with a video showcasing the discrimination West Papuans have had to endure for ... <a title="Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/indonesian-trolls-target-tongan-beauty-diamond-langi-over-papuan-solidarity/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian trolls target Tongan beauty Diamond Langi over Papuan solidarity">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
By Apriza Pinandita in Jakarta Indonesia has urged the international community to speak up and take decisive action against racial violence at a United Nations forum in Geneva, Switzerland. But Indonesia’s call comes amid concerns of racial discrimination at home. The UN Human Rights Council last Wednesday held an urgent debate on racial violence, the ... <a title="Indonesia calls for more action against racism as issues persist at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/indonesia-calls-for-more-action-against-racism-as-issues-persist-at-home/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia calls for more action against racism as issues persist at home">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2020
By Evi Mariani in Jakarta The giant wave of the United States’ #BlackLivesMatter campaign has now swept across Indonesia. A number of groups have begun to discuss racism in the country and have touched upon a rarely discussed topic – racism against Papuans. For a long time, racism against Indonesians of Chinese descent, also called ... <a title="Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/14/call-for-chinese-indonesians-to-support-papuanlivesmatter/" aria-label="Read more about Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2020
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a global outcry, Indonesian rights advocates and young people have stepped forward to remind fellow citizens that racism has long been an issue at home as well. The scene of Floyd ... <a title="‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/06/papuanlivesmatter-george-floyds-death-exposes-double-standards/" aria-label="Read more about ‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2020
By RNZ News A New Zealand district councillor says he has been bombarded with racist messages since he spoke out about racism towards Asian people after the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. The illness has killed hundreds and sickened thousands since it emerged in China this month. In South Korea and Vietnam, businesses have put ... <a title="Coronavirus: NZ local councillor ‘bombarded’ with racist messages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/01/coronavirus-nz-local-councillor-bombarded-with-racist-messages/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: NZ local councillor ‘bombarded’ with racist messages">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2019
By Michael Andrew The Indonesian media is contributing to resentment and racism toward Papuans, according to a human rights researcher and former journalist. Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch Jakarta told Pacific Media Watch many Indonesian journalists either view Papuans as enemy “separatists” or deviants and their reporting tends to convey these stereotypes. Papuan anger has erupted in ... <a title="Indonesian journalists ‘bought, broken and soul searching’, says researcher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/24/indonesian-journalists-bought-broken-and-soul-searching-says-researcher/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian journalists ‘bought, broken and soul searching’, says researcher">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Protests are spreading in Indonesia-ruled West Papua in response to harassment of Papuans during explosive incidents in Javanese cities last week. Indonesia’s president has urged calm after some of the protests turned violent, but he’s been criticised for not directly addressing a festering racism problem. The unrest was triggered ... <a title="Papuans continue protests against racism and hatred" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/papuans-continue-protests-against-racism-and-hatred/" aria-label="Read more about Papuans continue protests against racism and hatred">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2019
Political Roundup: Outlawing hate speech and hate crimes by Dr Bryce Edwards Debates over regulating free speech, hate speech, and the treatment of hate crimes are now in full swing. The Government and a number of state institutions had already been keen to bolster laws around hate speech and hate crimes before the Christchurch terrorist ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Outlawing hate speech and hate crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/01/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-outlawing-hate-speech-and-hate-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Outlawing hate speech and hate crimes">Read more</a>
