Tag: Nuclear Testing
Why a royal princess from the Pacific is living in Arkansas
Pacific Media Watch
The US tested 67 nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, tricking the people who lived on Bikini Atoll to leave their homeland...
Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day
OPEN LETTER: The Ōtepoti Declaration by the Indigenous Caucus of the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania Conference
On the 61st anniversary of the first raising of...
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...
Greenpeace condemns NZ silence on Pacific deep sea mining risks
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Greenpeace Aotearoa has condemned New Zealand for "standing by" while "deep wounds are inflicted on its Pacific neighbours" by silence over...
Macron hosts French ‘truth and justice’ Pacific nuclear test legacy talks
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...
Radio 531pi’s Brian Sagala talks nuke-free Pacific with David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 531pi Breakfast Talanoa host Brian Sagala has talked about the Rarotonga Treaty with Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie.
"It...
Tahitian anti-nuclear advocates mark 51st year since testing began
Pacific Media Watch News desk
Tahitians will today mark the 51st anniversary of the first French nuclear weapons test in the Pacific as advocates still...
Ban the bomb – how NZ’s ordinary ‘Davids’ checked the nuclear...
Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt's video on the nuclear free law campaign.
Off The Wall: with Padre James Bhagwan in Suva
As we conclude the...
‘We have to act now’ — Marshall Islanders blast Runit n-pollution
By Kendall Hutt in Suva
A group of Marshall Islanders is calling on the Pacific to stand with them in solidarity as they urge leaders...
Indonesia and Japan agree to step up maritime security, plan rail...
Indonesia and Japan have agreed to step up maritime security and start discussions on a major railway project to link Jakarta and Surabaya in...
A damning indictment of the parlous state of affairs in the...
Dr Shailendra Singh reviews a new edition of Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face.
Above all, David Robie’s Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and...
Former PM Juppé’s nuclear ‘impact’ admission leaves Tahitian activists bemused
By Amélie David in Pape'ete
An admission by Alain Juppé, a former French prime minister at the time of the last nuclear tests in the...
Rick Wayman: We stand with the Marshall Islands
Yesterday marked two years since the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) took a courageous stand against the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations.
On April 24,...
World leaders still ‘hiding behind fossil fuels’, says Rainbow Warrior skipper
At the helm of Greenpeace environmental campaign vessels for more than 30 years, Peter Willcox talks with Kendall Hutt about climate change and his...
Marshall Islands v Big Nuclear – will Pacific people get the...
By Jen Maman
In April 2014, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a tiny island country part of Micronesia, filed groundbreaking lawsuits to the International...
Hollande ‘turns page’ on French N-tests but admits health harm
Compensation for the victims of three decades of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific was a focus of President François Hollande's visit to...
De Brum, Nuclear Zero lawyers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Report from the International Peace Bureau
By Colin Archer in Geneva
The Oslo-based International Peace Bureau has nominated former Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum...
New Japanese bill stirs anxiety in the Pacific
Archive: First published on Aug 27, 2015
By Niklas Brandt Pedersen
A new bill due to be passed by the Diet could counteract the longstanding Japanese...
