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November 2, 2021
Māori climate activist India Logan-Riley speaking on the indigenous challenge to the “colonial project” at the COP26 opening … “In the US and Canada alone, indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one quarter of annual emissions. What we do works.” Image: COP26 screenshot APR (at 1:00.26) RNZ Pacific ... <a title="‘Don’t fudge with our future’, Māori climate activist warns COP26" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/dont-fudge-with-our-future-maori-climate-activist-warns-cop26/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t fudge with our future’, Māori climate activist warns COP26">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2021
RNZ Pacific With most of its eligible adult population covered, Fiji’s covid-19 vaccine rollout for teenagers is gaining pace. The Health Ministry said 28,965 children aged 15 to 17 had received a first vaccine dose — and 3892 teenagers had received a second. The rollout was recently extended to this age bracket after vaccination rates ... <a title="Fiji vaccination of teens going strong after adult rollout success" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/25/fiji-vaccination-of-teens-going-strong-after-adult-rollout-success/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji vaccination of teens going strong after adult rollout success">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The interim president of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) has accused Indonesia of holding its 20th National Games “on the bones of my people”. “While we mourn for three years of Indonesian military operations, these games are a dance on top of our graves, on top of our ... <a title="Indonesian Games ‘held on bones of Papuans’, accuses Benny Wenda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/06/indonesian-games-held-on-bones-of-papuans-accuses-benny-wenda/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian Games ‘held on bones of Papuans’, accuses Benny Wenda">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2021
RNZ Pacific A youth-led Pasifika mass vaccination event in Auckland has immunised several thousand people over the past four days. Pacific health provider South Seas’ youth group Bubble Gum ran a drive-through event called Rally Your Village at Auckland’s Vodafone Events Centre. The event has resulted in 4542 people being vaccinated — mostly youth and ... <a title="Thousands of youth get jab at NZ Pasifika community event" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/06/thousands-of-youth-get-jab-at-nz-pasifika-community-event/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands of youth get jab at NZ Pasifika community event">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel Fattah, Macquarie University Those born after 2001 have only known a world “at war on terror”. This means a generation growing up under under fears and moral panics about Muslims and unparalleled security measures around their bodies and lives. In my new book, Coming of Age in the War on Terror, ... <a title="‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of being a terrorist’ – growing up Muslim after 9/11" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/im-not-afraid-of-terrorism-im-afraid-of-being-accused-of-being-a-terrorist-growing-up-muslim-after-9-11/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of being a terrorist’ – growing up Muslim after 9/11">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
COMMENT: By Shailendra Singh in Suva This poignant photo by Max Vosailagi captures Fiji’s fixation with rugby sevens, with winning a second Olympic Gold last night by beating New Zealand 27-12 in the men’s final. Two young boys, glued to what is apparently a TV screen through a neighbourhood front door during the Tokyo Olympic ... <a title="Fiji Olympic Gold … never to be missed even for Fiji’s youngest sevens fans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fiji-olympic-gold-never-to-be-missed-even-for-fijis-youngest-sevens-fans/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Olympic Gold … never to be missed even for Fiji’s youngest sevens fans">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk As many as 714,066 Papuans and 112 organisations which are part of the Papuan People’s Petition (PRP) have rejected last week’s enactment into law of revisions to Law Number 21/2001 on Papua Special Autonomy (Otsus), reports CNN Indonesia. They believe that special autonomy is not the answer to resolving the problems ... <a title="714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/714000-papuans-112-organisations-oppose-failed-special-autonomy-law/" aria-label="Read more about 714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2021
Over the past 50 years, France has continued to deny the tragedies of nuclear testing in French Occupied Polynesia by propagating the theory of “clean nuclear tests”. Image: Youngsolwara Pacific Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Moana activists, campaigners, scholars, researchers and Green MPs gathered today in a show of solidarity for Tahiti’s Ma’ohi Lives Matter rally ... <a title="NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners join Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/19/nz-nuclear-free-activists-campaigners-join-tahitis-maohi-lives-matter-rally/" aria-label="Read more about NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners join Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva A 15-year-old girl has become Fiji’s youngest death due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, taking the total of deaths due to the virus to 58. Health Secretary Dr James Fong has confirmed this after an investigation by medical personnel classified the case as another covid-19 death. The girl from Colo-I-Suva ... <a title="15-year-old girl among latest Fiji covid deaths as virus cases soar over 11,000" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/13/15-year-old-girl-among-latest-fiji-covid-deaths-as-virus-cases-soar-over-11000/" aria-label="Read more about 15-year-old girl among latest Fiji covid deaths as virus cases soar over 11,000">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2021
RNZ News Australia is facing condemnation from National and Green Party MPs over the deportation of a 15-year-old boy to New Zealand. Little detail has been made public about the teen other than that he is being held in a quarantine facility and is receiving support from Oranga Tamariki. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ... <a title="Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/australias-deportation-of-15-year-old-boy-heartbreaking-says-green-mp/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s deportation of 15-year-old boy ‘heartbreaking’, says Green MP">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
By a special Asia Pacific Report correspondent Intan Jaya has started Lent with bitter sorrow after losing three young Papuan men alleged to have been shot and brutally tortured to death by the Indonesian military in a local health centre. Sources said that the armed conflict has caused more than 1000 indigenous West Papuans in ... <a title="Three Papuan youths killed in torture reprisal by Indonesian military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/three-papuan-youths-killed-in-torture-reprisal-by-indonesian-military/" aria-label="Read more about Three Papuan youths killed in torture reprisal by Indonesian military">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
By António Sampaio in Pante Macassar, Timor-Leste The fear that has led for years to silence dozens of children, allegedly victims of sexual abuse by a former priest who begins trial today in Timor-Leste’s western enclave, still shrouds the case. Witnesses, victims and others who knew about the abuse – including people involved in the ... <a title="Fear still marks the trial of a former priest in Timor-Leste enclave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/fear-still-marks-the-trial-of-a-former-priest-in-timor-leste-enclave/" aria-label="Read more about Fear still marks the trial of a former priest in Timor-Leste enclave">Read more</a>
