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May 29, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Journalists have been targeted, detained and tortured by the Israeli military in Gaza — and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has now taken a new approach towards bringing justice these crimes. The Paris-based global media freedom NGO has submitted multiple formal requests to the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking that Palestinian journalists who ... <a title="Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/29/radical-legal-step-towards-ending-impunity-for-israel-over-killing-gaza-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Radical legal step towards ending impunity for Israel over killing Gaza journalists">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A punitive defamation charge filed against one of Samoa’s most experienced and trusted journalists last week has sparked a flurry of criticism over abuse of power and misuse of a law that has long been heavily criticised as outdated. Talamua Online senior journalist Lagi Keresoma, who is also president of the Journalists ... <a title="Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/punitive-criminal-libel-charge-against-samoan-journalist-draws-flurry-of-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2025
By Patrick Muuh in Port Moresby Journalists in Papua New Guinea are likely to face legal threats as powerful individuals and companies use court actions to silence public interest reporting, warns Media Council of PNG president Neville Choi. As co-chair of the second Community Coalition Against Corruption (CCAC) National Meeting, he said lawfare was likely ... <a title="PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law to stop SLAPPs’, says Choi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/22/png-journalists-warned-over-lawfare-we-dont-have-any-law-to-stop-slapps-says-choi/" aria-label="Read more about PNG journalists warned over lawfare – ‘we don’t have any law to stop SLAPPs’, says Choi">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 21, 2025
RNZ News New Zealand has joined 23 other countries calling out Israel and demanding a full supply of foreign aid be allowed into the territory. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters told RNZ Morning Report today it was “intolerable” that Israel had blocked any aid reaching residents for many weeks. The UN is warning that 14,000 ... <a title="NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza aid blockade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/nz-running-out-of-patience-peters-lashes-israel-over-gaza-aid-blockade/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza aid blockade">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose Reading an NBC News report a couple of days ago about a Trump administration plan to relocate 1 million Gazans to Libya reminded me of a conversation between the legendary Warsaw Ghetto leader Marek Edelman and fellow fighter and survivor Simcha Rotem that took place more than quarter of a ... <a title="Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/starvation-of-gaza-a-distressing-continuation-of-a-decades-old-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Israel has been accused of “manipulation” and “cynical” circumvention of global decisions calling for unrestricted humanitarian aid access to the besieged Gaza enclave. “In a clear act of defiance against international humanitarian obligations, the occupying state has permitted only nine aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip — covering both the devastated ... <a title="Israel slammed over ‘cynical’ sidestep of global rulings on Gazan humanitarian aid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/israel-slammed-over-cynical-sidestep-of-global-rulings-on-gazan-humanitarian-aid/" aria-label="Read more about Israel slammed over ‘cynical’ sidestep of global rulings on Gazan humanitarian aid">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 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 14, 2025
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor The co-founder of Auckland’s Fiji Centre is concerned that Indo-Fijians are not classified as Pacific Islanders in Aotearoa. This week marks the 146th anniversary of the arrival of the first indentured labourers from British India to Fiji, who departed from Calcutta. ... <a title="Fiji Indians in NZ ‘not giving up’ on Pasifika classification struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/14/fiji-indians-in-nz-not-giving-up-on-pasifika-classification-struggle/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Indians in NZ ‘not giving up’ on Pasifika classification struggle">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Stuck in a state of disbelief for months, journalist Coralie Cochin was one of many media personnel who inadvertently put their lives on the line as New Caledonia burned. “It was very shocking. I don’t know the word in English, you can’t believe what you’re seeing,” ... <a title="New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at war’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/13/new-caledonia-riots-one-year-on-like-the-country-was-at-war/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at war’">Read more</a>
