Tag: Moruroa

By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific Vanuatu correspondent in Port Vila Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau says Pacific security is about the security of the Pacific...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The French government has denied any cover-up over radiation levels in the Pacific following its nuclear testing in the region, as...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter While a Paris roundtable about the legacy of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls is eagerly awaited by...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru says high-level talks on France's nuclear legacy due in Paris this month should be held at the...

RNZ Pacific A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Cutting edge nuclear science, a trove of declassified documents, and investigative journalism have exposed the human and environmental impacts of French...

By RNZ Pacific A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear...

By RNZ Pacific The French nuclear compensation commission, CIVEN, says it will soon report on how to respond to last month's Supreme Court reinstatement of...

Television tribute to Roland Oldham in French. Video:Polynésie la 1ère By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's leading advocate for the victims of France's nuclear weapons tests has...

OPINION: By Michael Bain Last week was ANZAC Day on April 25. I took my kids to the Dawn Service at Auckland’s War Memorial Museum....

ANALYSIS: By Dr Vanessa Griffen The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced earlier this month that the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to ICAN, the International...