Tag: Nuclear Weapons
Strip medals from French Rainbow Warrior saboteurs, says Star-Times
Pacific Media Centre's Alistar Kata profiles the legacy of activism from the 1985 Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Video:...
Timor, Indonesia vote for NZ-backed ‘gift for future’ nuclear-free ban
UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu flags new challenges facing the disarmament agenda in the 21st century. Video: UN News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Timor-Leste and Indonesia...
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...
‘Ordinary hero’ who challenged French Polynesian ‘nuclear horror’ dies
Bruno Barrillot talking about the legacy of French nuclear testing in the Pacific in the Witnesses of the Bomb programme in a 2013 multimedia...
Keith Locke: Israel’s anti-nuclear whistleblower more deserving of NZ citizenship
OPINION: By Keith Locke
No self-respecting country sells its passports to rich people who don’t even live there, which is why it was so bad...
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...
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,...
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...
Mystery of the 1983 Vanuatu ‘nuclear free’ girl finally solved
June Keitadi -- as a five-year-old -- in the 1983 Huarere video "Nuclear Free". She is seen at 1m08.
By David Robie in Auckland
So the...
Bill Rosenberg: TPP wrong path – a nuclear-free moment
OPINION: By Bill Rosenberg
Politicians, journalists and commentators who cannot understand why the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement marks the end of bipartisan support for similar...
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...
Evening Report’s Selwyn Manning talks to David Robie on Rainbow Warrior
A rich account of the events surrounding the Rainbow Warrior affair three decades ago.
Interview: With Dr David Robie
Interviewer: Selwyn Manning
Date: July 8, 2015
Subject: 30...
Rainbow Warrior ’s truth-seeking remembered as secrecy lingers
Report by Pacific Media Watch
Item: 9498
David Robie
France detonated 193 nuclear tests in the South Pacific, at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls, before halting the tests...
Rainbow Warrior project students win Ossie award for best innovation
The Rainbow Warrior video news compilation by the AUT student journalists. Source: AUT
Report by Pacific Media Watch
A team of Auckland University of Technology student...
New Japanese weapons bill stirs nuclear anxiety in the Pacific
Report by Pacific Media Centre - Asia Pacific Journalism’s Niklas Pedersen reports on a controversial new Japanese piece of legislation. Video: APJ
Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Niklas...