Tag: French nuclear tests
David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor
The New Zealand government needs to do more for its Pacific...
Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior...
Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...
By Aui'a Vaimaila Leatinu'u of PMN News
I didn’t know much about the surrounding context of the infamous Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years ago on...
The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10...
The Rainbow Warrior saga: 1. French state terrorism and NZ’s end...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Immediately after killing Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents...
Clark warns in new Pacific book renewed nuclear tensions pose ‘existential...
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned the country needs to maintain its nuclear-free policy as a “fundamental tenet” of...
‘Declare your city genocide free’ – lessons from NZ’s nuclear-free movement
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Today I attended a demonstration outside both Aotearoa New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Israeli Embassy in...
Māohi Nui campaigner tackles French nuclear test legacy – cancer and...
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Over 30 years the French government tested 193 nuclear weapons in Māohi Nui and today...
Obituary: Meraia Taufa Vakatale – Fiji anti-nuclear activist and feminist trailblazer
By Asenaca Uluiviti and Sadhana Sen
Fiji recently lost Dr Meraia Taufa Vakatale, a monumental woman leader who broke many glass ceilings with her numerous...
Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
Securing a nuclear-free region has been a long battle for the Pacific.
After the Second World War, the United States,...
French nuclear testing fallout in Pacific still affecting NZ men decades...
By Jimmy Ellingham, RNZ News reporter
Fifty years ago 242 men left New Zealand on a mission to Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia.
The crew of...
Nuclear experts offer to ‘take a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Independent nuclear experts have offered to drink water and eat fish from the Pacific Ocean after Japan dumps its...
Tahitian anti-nuclear group criticises France for ‘downplaying’ tests health
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Polynesia's anti-nuclear organisation Association 193 has criticised the latest French report about the impact of the France's nuclear...
‘I feel empowered’, says Pacific youth delegate after nuclear summit
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pacific Youth are looking at how they can spark positive change following the Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit which has...
French Polynesian atolls still wary decades after nuclear tests
RNZ Pacific
The new French High Commissioner to French Polynesia has heard calls for support and compensation for atolls close to the test sites of...
France ‘must pay’ for study on genetic impact of its Pacific...
RNZ Pacific
The French state should pay for a study on the genetic impact of its nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific, says French...
Tahiti’s nuclear compo advocate to be honoured in French Polynesia
RNZ Pacific
The office of the Tahitian president says it wants to honour the memory of Bruno Barrillot who was the head of French Polynesia's...
France pays out US$16m on nearly 100 Tahiti nuclear compensation claims
RNZ Pacific
The French nuclear compensation commission CIVEN says that last year it paid out US$16.6 million to victims of France's nuclear weapons tests.
France tested...
Thousands in Pape’ete mark 56th anniversary of first Moruroa test
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's nuclear test veterans have called for July 2 to be made a public holiday to remember the impact of France's nuclear...
French Pacific readies for presidential election as Macron seeks second term
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
As the French Pacific is gearing up for Sunday's first round of the French presidential election, incumbent President Emmanuel...
Temaru defence controversy in Radio Tefana political case revisited
RNZ Pacific
Investigators in French Polynesia have reassessed their case against the pro-independence leader Oscar Manutahi Temaru, who has challenged the seizure of his US$100,000...
French nuclear experts offer reassuring but contradictory ‘clear answers’ to investigative...
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva
Following the publication of the book Toxic some 9 months ago and President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to French Polynesia last July,...