Tag: French nuclear tests
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,...
Samoa Observer: The fallacy of a nuclear submarine deal for peace
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
It perhaps wasn’t a remarkable coincidence that last month Samoa’s former Ambassador to the United Nations called on...
Macron says Paris owes ‘debt’ to French Polynesia over nuclear tests
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
French President Emmanuel Macron said this week that Paris owed “a debt” to French Polynesia over nuclear tests conducted in the...
Nine takeaways from the Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter solidarity rally in...
By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala
About 35 people joined an Auckland rally last Sunday in solidarity with a Mā'ohi Nui Lives Matter demonstration by...
Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy
RNZ Pacific
Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests.
The...
NZ nuclear-free activists, campaigners back Tahiti’s Mā’ohi Lives Matter rally
Over the past 50 years, France has continued to deny the tragedies of nuclear testing in French Occupied Polynesia by propagating the theory of...
Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally
By Jean-Pierre Viatge in Pape'ete
Fifteen days after Tahiti Nui's anti-nuclear protest on July 2, the Tavini Huiraatira party has organised a march Mā'ohi Lives...
Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf.
Two French secret agents planted two limpet...
Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test...
RNZ Pacific
More than 2000 demonstrators in French Polynesia have joined a march in the capital Pape'ete to mark the 55th anniversary of the first...