Pacific CSOs: Our ocean is not a battleground
PACIFIC civil society organisations want regional leaders to reject growing militarisation and have warned that the region must not become a battleground for geopolitical
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Pacific cannot be treated as a theatre for force – Marshall Islands
THE Republic of the Marshall Islands has sharply condemned China’s reported submarine-launched missile test in the South Pacific, saying the region cannot be treated as a venue for military signalling.
Tonga ratifies global nuclear test ban treaty in Pacific milestone
TONGA has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, becoming the 179th country to do so and completing treaty universalisation across the Pacific region.
Taylor tells leaders to stop avoiding tough questions
A FORMER senior Pacific regional official has urged leaders to stop avoiding tough questions on self-determination and sovereignty, warning that security agendas overshadow issues that really matter most to islanders.
A spiritual call for justice echoes across the Pacific
ANIN jitbon mar—a spiritual calling from the islands—set the tone for Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day commemorations in Suva
Double displacement
SOME Bikinians returned to their home island in 1971, but surveys revealed ongoing levels of radioactivity that increased risk to human health.
Moruroa e Tatou: A new generation steps up. Young people take hold of nuclear future
SINCE 2001, the association Moruroa e Tatou has brought together former Mā’ohi workers who staffed the nuclear test sites in Mā’ohi
Pacific CSOs condemn US plans to hold nuclear tests
PACIFIC civil society organisations have condemned any plans by the United States administration to resume nuclear weapons
French Polynesia’s president endorses nuclear-free Pacific
AT the 54th Pacific Islands Forum in Solomon Islands, French Polynesia President Moetai Brotherson highlighted the legacy of French nuclear testing and urged a stronger South Pacific Nuclear-Free
Parliamentary report calls for action on Mā’ohi nuclear survivors
A major new report on the consequences of French nuclear testing in Mā’ohi Nui (French Polynesia) has been released by a parliamentary commission of inquiry in
Strengthening SPNFZ: nuclear entanglement or nuclear free?
FORTY years ago, on 6 August 1985, the Pacific Islands Forum adopted the Treaty of Rarotonga for a South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone (SPNFZ).
Eighty years after Hiroshima, Pacific calls for nuclear disarmament
EIGHTY years ago, on 6 August 1945, the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas, flying towards the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
My missile is bigger than your missile
For the first time in more than 40 years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has fired an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile across the Pacific, to splash down in waters near French
Japan to resume trial removal of Fukushima debris
The operator of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will resume an operation to remove a sample of highly radioactive debris this week, The Japan Times reports, after having suspended the effort over a
Marshall Islands wins UN Human Rights Council seat with climate, nuclear justice agenda
Marshall Islands was elected on Wednesday to sit on the United Nations Human Rights Council from next year, with climate change and nuclear justice as its top
UN rights council examines nuclear legacy consequences in the Marshall Islands
The UN Human Rights Council convened a dialogue on Friday to examine the nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall
Pacific Women Leaders want action on nuclear legacy and Gender disparities
Almost eight decades after the last nuclear bomb detonated in the Marshall Islands, there is a call from the Pacific region for a concerted effort to study its impacts on women and girls. The Pacific solidarity call for
Marshallese women call for nuclear justice
Women continue to fight for justice, 70 years after the first nuclear tests by the United States caused devastation on the people and environment of the Marshall Islands. And as Pacific women gathered on Majuro to
“When are we going back?” – Nuclear Displacement in the Marshall Islands
Gina Langinbelik Anuntak is a student at the College of the Marshall Islands (CMI). She is President of the CMI Nuclear Club, a student association that unites Marshallese students to understand the legacies of the 20th
UN nuclear chief tells Japan transparency is ‘very important’ in ruined nuclear plant’s discharges
The head of the UN atomic agency on Tuesday emphasised to Japan’s government the importance of transparency in its ongoing discharges of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
Third release of treated water from Fukushima nuclear plant ends safely, TEPCO says
The release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater from Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean ended safely as planned, its operator said Monday, as the country’s seafood
Forum outcomes cover environment, security and gender
Meeting in Cook Islands, Pacific Islands Forum leaders confirmed former President of Nauru Baron Waqa as the next Secretary General of the Forum Secretariat, taking over from Henry Puna in 2024. A major focus of the
