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January 11, 2026
By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist A former head of the United Nations Development Programme is concerned that US President Donald Trump may set a precedent for other countries. The President has signed a memorandum ordering the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organisations. These include the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the ... <a title="Clark condemns US withdrawal as ‘assault on international system of cooperation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/11/clark-condemns-us-withdrawal-as-assault-on-international-system-of-cooperation/" aria-label="Read more about Clark condemns US withdrawal as ‘assault on international system of cooperation’">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, who led the UN Development Programme which oversees UNRWA, told RNZ Morning Report today it was the biggest platform for getting humanitarian aid into Gaza for a populations that is 85 percent displaced. People are on the verge on starvation and going without medical supplies, ... <a title="Defunding UNRWA will cause Gazans ‘more misery and suffering’, warns former PM Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/30/defunding-unrwa-will-cause-gazans-more-misery-and-suffering-warns-former-pm-clark/" aria-label="Read more about Defunding UNRWA will cause Gazans ‘more misery and suffering’, warns former PM Clark">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has joined a chorus of global development and political figures defending the United Nations “lifeline” for more than two million Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip enclave. Declaring New Zealand should stick to its three-year funding agreement with the UN relief agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), ... <a title="Palestinian agency condemns funding cuts as ‘ collective punishment’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/28/palestinian-agency-condemns-funding-cuts-as-collective-punishment/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian agency condemns funding cuts as ‘ collective punishment’">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning — who is also head of the country’s Covid-19 National Control Centre — has placed United Nations agencies on notice that they must reveal how they have spent virus emergency funding over the past two years. Manning said Prime Minister James Marap and other Members of ... <a title="PNG police chief demands covid-19 emergency funding reports from UN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/12/png-police-chief-demands-covid-19-emergency-funding-reports-from-un/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police chief demands covid-19 emergency funding reports from UN">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2021
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist The United Nations has glaring problems in Samoa where the government is calling for the UN’s role in the country to be reviewed. The most pressing immediate problem concerns the UN Resident Co-ordinator in Samoa, Simona Marinescu, and the local government’s allegation that she has interfered in domestic politics. ... <a title="UN relationship with Samoa under a cloud over ‘political breaches’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/29/un-relationship-with-samoa-under-a-cloud-over-political-breaches/" aria-label="Read more about UN relationship with Samoa under a cloud over ‘political breaches’">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2020
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Kanni Wignaraja, Bambang Susantono. As lockdowns ease in countries across Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is clear—a return to business as usual is unimaginable in a region that was already off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The virtual High-Level ... <a title="Submission – A Determined Path to the SDGs in 2030 Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/27/submission-a-determined-path-to-the-sdgs-in-2030-despite-the-covid-19-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Submission – A Determined Path to the SDGs in 2030 Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2018
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