Full Coverage: Marshall Islands
03/02/2007
Indonesiassa, Pakistanissa ja Marshall-saarilla toteutettu pilottihanke osoitti, että kehitysmaiden kansalaiset voivat lisäkoulutuksen avulla osallistua nykyistä enemmän julkisten varojen käytön suunnitteluun ja päätöksentekoon. Demokratian ja avoimmuuden kasvattaminen herättivät kuitenkin myös vastustusta.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Indonesia] [Pakistan] [Civil Rights] [Civil Society] [Democracy] [Governance] |
07/04/2006
June 30th marked the painful 60th anniversary of nuclear testing on the Marhsall Islands, a date of which many Americans are unaware. Jane Goodall and Rick Asselta write that Americans must acknowledge the damage done to make sure such horrors are not perpetrated again.
Read moreFrom: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Image: Jane Goodall: Many Marshallese Islanders still suffer the consequences of nuclear testing 60 years ago. © Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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03/02/2006
Sixty years ago, the United States began 12 years of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands that released radiation dwarfing what the citizens of Hiroshima saw. It's time for the U.S. to properly address the legacy of illness, forced relocation, and social and cultural ills imposed on the indigenous communities there, say activists.
Read moreFrom: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Related: [United States] [Indigenous Rights] [Nuclear Arms] Image: A Nuclear Weapons Test in 1951 © Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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05/24/2005
U.S. use of the Marshall Islands as a laboratory for atomic and thermonuclear testing as well as human radiation experiments has irreperably damaged life in the Pacific country. Tony de Brum, a Marshallese indigenous rights activist, told delegates at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference how this non-"rogue state" has already done tremendous damage with nuclear weapons.
Read moreFrom: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Related: [United States] [Health] [Indigenous Rights] [Geopolitics] [Nuclear Arms] Image: Nuclear Weapons Test in 1951 © Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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02/22/2001
High tides in the low-lying South Pacific island of Kiribati have temporarily flooded the capital Tarawa, while other islands in the region are also in danger.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service Related: [Kiribati] [Papua New Guinea] [Oceania] [Climate Change] |



