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August 12, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A new Aotearoa New Zealand book focusing on activists and their causes against militarism and for social struggles and climate justice across the Asia-Pacific is being launched in Wellington today. Peace Action: Struggles for a decolonised and demilitarised Oceania and East Asia, edited by Wellington-based activist Valerie Morse, is the first ... <a title="New book has focus on Pacific activists against militarism, for climate justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/12/new-book-has-focus-on-pacific-activists-against-militarism-for-climate-justice/" aria-label="Read more about New book has focus on Pacific activists against militarism, for climate justice">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2022
By Jairo Bolledo of Rappler in Manila Former Philippines vice-presidential candidate and Laban ng Masa chairperson Walden Bello has been arrested for two counts of alleged cyber libel by the police. Bello, 76, is a globally renowned environmental and social justice activist and academic. Bello’s arrest yesterday was confirmed by his executive secretary and Laban ... <a title="Philippine police arrest ex-VP social justice candidate Bello for cyber libel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/09/philippine-police-arrest-ex-vp-social-justice-candidate-bello-for-cyber-libel/" aria-label="Read more about Philippine police arrest ex-VP social justice candidate Bello for cyber libel">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2022
By Mara Cepeda in Manila Philippine Vice-President Leni Robredo will not allow the massive, volunteer-led movement she inspired in the 2022 presidential elections to just fade away following her loss to the late dictator’s son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Facing tens of thousands of her supporters during her thanksgiving event at the Ateneo de Manila ... <a title="After election defeat, Robredo to lead ‘biggest volunteer movement in Philippine history’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/after-election-defeat-robredo-to-lead-biggest-volunteer-movement-in-philippine-history/" aria-label="Read more about After election defeat, Robredo to lead ‘biggest volunteer movement in Philippine history’">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2021
By Rebecca Kuku and Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby As families prepare to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, a safe house in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby has kicked out gender-based violence survivors, leaving them homeless for the festive season. One of the survivors, 37-year-old Gathy Peter from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, ... <a title="Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/27/christmas-on-the-street-for-png-survivor-of-jailed-wife-basher/" aria-label="Read more about Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2021
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific deputy news editor Experts are warning that development gains across the Pacific region over the past 10 years could be undone due to the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic. The aid organisation World Vision wants a once in a life time multinational effort to rebuild Pacific livelihoods that have been ... <a title="Aftershocks of covid-19 threaten to undo gains across Pacific, says report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/18/aftershocks-of-covid-19-threaten-to-undo-gains-across-pacific-says-report/" aria-label="Read more about Aftershocks of covid-19 threaten to undo gains across Pacific, says report">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney Since the attacks on the United States by 15 Saudi Arabian Islamic fanatics on 11 September 2001 — now known as 9/11 — the world has been divided by a “war on terror” with any protest group defined as “terrorists”. New anti-terror laws have been introduced both in the ... <a title="9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/12/9-11-killed-it-but-20-years-on-global-justice-movement-is-poised-for-revival/" aria-label="Read more about 9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Māori political leader has branded opposition neoliberal ACT leader David Seymour’s act this week undermining an indigenous response to New Zealand’s covid-19 pandemic as “unbelievably irresponsible and cruel”. Seymour publicly shared a priority vaccine code for Māori so that Pākehā, or non-Māori, could jump the queue for vaccinations against the ... <a title="Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/09/seymours-sabotage-of-maori-priority-vaccine-code-unbelievably-cruel/" aria-label="Read more about Seymour’s sabotage of Māori priority vaccine code ‘unbelievably cruel’">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Days after being condemned by the largest Pacific Island capital — Port Moresby, the Economist’s Global Liveability Index has been criticised in Auckland by one of New Zealand’s most respected “green” columnists. The criticisms come from different ends of the spectrum — Port Moresby was third to last in the 140-nation ... <a title="Auckland’s ‘most liveable’ city loses some gloss with Pacific criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/18/aucklands-most-liveable-city-loses-some-gloss-with-pacific-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland’s ‘most liveable’ city loses some gloss with Pacific criticism">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2021
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Indonesian police carry a body in the current crackdown against pro-independence Papuans near Timika, Papua. IMAGE: seputarpapua.com By DAVID ROBIE International reporting has hardly been a strong feature of New Zealand journalism. No New Zealand print news organisation has serious international news departments or foreign ... <a title="West Papua, Palestine and other critical issues – why is NZ media glossing over them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/06/west-papua-palestine-and-other-critical-issues-why-is-nz-media-glossing-over-them/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua, Palestine and other critical issues – why is NZ media glossing over them?">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Governor-General, Dame Patsy Reddy, this week invested social justice advocate and former Green Party MP Keith Locke as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit “for services to human rights advocacy”. Locke described the the award in the New Year Honours list as recognition of the great work ... <a title="Locke invested with NZ Order of Merit for his human rights advocacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/locke-invested-with-nz-order-of-merit-for-his-human-rights-advocacy/" aria-label="Read more about Locke invested with NZ Order of Merit for his human rights advocacy">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Brendon Blue for The Democracy Project The day after New Zealand’s first lockdown was announced, I expressed to a senior colleague my concern for those around the country whose livelihoods would suffer as a result. She agreed, but was confident that the spirit of “we’re all in it together” accompanying these drastic public ... <a title="Brendon Blue: Non-homeowners are paying the cost of the covid-19 recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/26/brendon-blue-non-homeowners-are-paying-the-cost-of-the-covid-19-recovery/" aria-label="Read more about Brendon Blue: Non-homeowners are paying the cost of the covid-19 recovery">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce You can’t get the right answer if you keep asking the wrong question. A question this neoliberal New Zealand government and previous ones continue to ask is:“How can people get to own a home?” There are very, very limited answers to that question. But if you ask: “How can we give ... <a title="Bryan Bruce: NZ’s housing crisis – ask the right questions and we may get solutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/26/bryan-bruce-nzs-housing-crisis-ask-the-right-questions-and-we-may-get-solutions/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Bruce: NZ’s housing crisis – ask the right questions and we may get solutions">Read more</a>