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French Polynesia: 28 years after the end of France’s nuclear tests, these women are still fighting for compensation and care
The women of French Polynesia disproportionately bear the burden of France’s 30-year history of nuclear testing – both as victims and as caregivers. But they are also among those fighting for change.
The story was that the former president of French Polynesia, Oscar Temaru, had filed a complaint against France for alleged crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in relation to the fall-out of nuclear testing that had been done by the European country in its overseas territory in the South Pacific, for three decades starting in 1966. Anaïs Maurer, assistant professor at Rutgers University and expert in nuclear colonialism in the French-occupied Pacific, told CNN: “In addition to those health issues, women in most parts of the world are primarily responsible for taking care of children and of the sick. In 2019, at the United Nations in New York, Cross gave a powerful speech decrying the nuclear testing in French Polynesia and what she said was France’s continued refusal to adequately compensate the Polynesian people.
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