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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 9, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Who Owns You?
Barbara Sumner. Column: Barbara Sumner – Who owns you? Have you ever asked yourself this question? If you are a non-adopted person then the idea that someone could own you may never have occurred to you. If you are an adopted person, you may not be aware of the terms of your adoption. Or […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 9, 2018 / Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Climate, Climate Action, Climate adaptation, Climate Change Resilience, Climate policy, Editor's Picks, English, Environment, Evening Report, Featured, forests, Global, history, Human Rights, Innovation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, MIL OSI, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Climate 2018, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Politics, Real climate action, Reportage, Reports, Self Determination, UN, United Nations / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: ‘Most important years in history’ – last chance over climate, says UN report
Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and scientists say only a global transformation, beginning now, can avoid it. Climate Home News reviews the warnings in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change research report released yesterday. Only the remaking of the human world in a generation can now prevent serious, far […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 7, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Dear Toni Street
Column: Barbara Sumner – Dear Toni StreetCongratulations on the arrival of your child born through a surrogate. I have read of your frustration at the hoops you must jump through to now adopt him.Thank you for lending your profile in support of a petition to update the Adoption Act 1955. By doing so, you are […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 6, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Why I hate biographies
Column: Barbara Sumner – Barbara Sumner. I have a friend who loves biographies. She’s always telling me to read accounts of dire lives turned around, the fall and rise of a star or a tragedy overcome. But I can’t. Biographies and especially autobiographies unsettle me. It is not the sweep of grand lives that leaves […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 6, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: What more do you want?
Column: Barbara Sumner – Barbara Sumner. I’ve spent most of my adult life searching for my biological family. I’ve encountered endless roadblocks. The majority of them from officialdom. During the search and now as I start a campaign to free all adoption files, I am often asked – what do you want?But as an adopted […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 6, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Like a Stranger
Column: Barbara Sumner – Barbara Sumner. There once was a woman who kept changing everything: her hair, her glasses, her furniture, her style, her husbands and her lovers. She moved 34 times and changed her name seven times. Her restless journey was almost unconscious. She described herself as emotionally and physically peripatetic. The idea of […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 6, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Letter to Jacinda
Column: Barbara Sumner – Dear Prime Minister Your child is almost three months old. I was this age when I was taken from my mother because of her marital status. Or, it could have been earlier. Or later. I don’t know because I have three possible birth dates, seven months apart and two birth certificates. […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / September 26, 2018 / Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Civil Society, English, Evening Report, Featured, Fri West Papua, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indonesia, MIL OSI, Open Source Intel, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, PMC Reportage, Refugees, Reportage, Reports, Self Determination, West Papua, West Papua human rights, West Papua self-determination, West Papuan independence, Youth / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Indonesia arrests 67 Papuan students in Jayapura backing Vanuatu’s UN bid
Arrested West Papuan students … backing Vanuatu’s bid for United Nations support for Papuan self-determination. Image: Voice WestPapuan By Benny Mawel in Jayapura Students from several tertiary institutions in the Papuan provincial capital of Jayapura have been holding actions to support efforts by Vanuatu and other Pacific countries to take the West Papua issue before […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / September 18, 2018 / Amnesty International, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Asia Report, Crime, English, Evening Report, Extrajudicial killings, Featured, Human Rights, Human rights violations, Indigenous, Indonesia, Justice, MIL OSI, Military, Open Source Intel, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Paniai killings, PMC Reportage, Politics, Reportage, Reports, Self Determination, West Papua, West Papua human rights, West Papua self-determination, West Papuan independence / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Amnesty demands Jokowi honour pledge on Papuan human rights
Indonesian police and military have reportedly attacked the West Papua Committee (KNPB) office in Timika and arrested seven people, including three teenagers. Image: Timika KNPB By Budiarti Utami Putri in Jakarta Human rights organisation Amnesty International Indonesia has demanded President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo fulfil his promises to resolve the alleged human rights violations in Papua. […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / September 7, 2018 / Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Climate, Climate Action, climate warriors, Drought, English, Evening Report, Featured, Fiji, Global Warming, Heatwaves, Human Rights, MIL OSI, Open Source Intel, Pacific Climate Warriors, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Pacific Voices, PMC Reportage, Politics, Reportage, Reports, Self Determination, Water shortages, wildfires / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Pacific Climate Warriors rise for global day of ‘urgent action’
West Papua advocates talk about climate change and human rights. Video: Human Rights Watch Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Pacific Islanders across the Pacific and within Pacific Island diaspora communities in Australia, New Zealand and the United States are joining more than 800 actions in 90 countries under the banner of Rise for Climate to demonstrate […]
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