Nuclear Testing and Human Rights

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Kadelbach
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
European Commission ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
The South ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Underground Nuclear Testing

On 4 December 1995, the European Commission of Human Rights dismissed a complaint filed by inhabitants of French Polynesia against the decision of the President of the French Republic to resume underground nuclear testing in the South Pacific. The case raises a series of issues regarding both substantive human rights law and procedural law which are of general interest for human rights litigation in cases of degradation of the environment. The decision misses the opportunity to elaborate on how to protect human fights against potentially harmful activities when the risk incurred is in dispute. Thus, it raises more questions than it answers.

Territorial Sovereignty and the Problem of Transnational Pollution

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Handl
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
The South ◽  
General Law ◽  
Territorial Sovereignty ◽  
The Icj

In the case concerning the legality of French atmospheric nuclear testing in the South Pacific presently before the ICJ, an issue has been raised of far-reaching implications for the general law of state responsibility for environmental damage.

scholarly journals Molecular Characterization of Dengue Type 2 Outbreak in Pacific Islands Countries and Territories, 2017–2020

Viruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1081
Author(s):  
Catherine Inizan ◽  
Olivia O’Connor ◽  
George Worwor ◽  
Talica Cabemaiwai ◽  
Jean-Claude Grignon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
Diffusion Pattern

Dengue virus (DENV) serotype-2 was detected in the South Pacific region in 2014 for the first time in 15 years. In 2016–2020, DENV-2 re-emerged in French Polynesia, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, and New Caledonia, co-circulating with and later replacing DENV-1. In this context, epidemiological and molecular evolution data are paramount to decipher the diffusion route of this DENV-2 in the South Pacific region. In the current work, the E gene from 23 DENV-2 serum samples collected in Vanuatu, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, and New Caledonia was sequenced. Both maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses were performed. While all DENV-2 strains sequenced belong to the Cosmopolitan genotype, phylogenetic analysis suggests at least three different DENV-2 introductions in the South Pacific between 2017 and 2020. Strains retrieved in these Pacific Islands Countries and Territories (PICTs) in 2017–2020 are phylogenetically related, with strong phylogenetic links between strains retrieved from French PICTs. These phylogenetic data substantiate epidemiological data of the DENV-2 diffusion pattern between these countries.

scholarly journals Distribution and biological implications of plastic pollution on the fringing reef of Mo’orea, French Polynesia

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Connors
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
The South ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Fringing Reef ◽  
Coral Reef Ecosystems ◽  
Oceanic Gyres ◽  
First Time ◽  
Negatively Buoyant

Coral reef ecosystems of the South Pacific are extremely vulnerable to plastic pollution from oceanic gyres and land-based sources. To describe the extent and impact of plastic pollution, the distribution of both macro- (>5 mm) and microplastic (plastic < 5 mm) of the fringing reef of an isolated South Pacific island, Mo’orea, French Polynesia was quantified. Macroplastic was found on every beach on the island that was surveyed. The distribution of this plastic was categorized by site type and by the presence of Turbinaria ornata, a common macroalgae on Mo’orea. Microplastics were discovered in the water column of the fringing reef of the island, at a concentration of 0.74 pieces m−2. Additionally, this study reports for the first time the ingestion of microplastic by the corallimorpha Discosoma nummiforme. Microplastics were made available to corallimorph polyps in a laboratory setting over the course of 108 h. Positively and negatively buoyant microplastics were ingested, and a microplastic particle that was not experimentally introduced was also discovered in the stomach cavity of one organism. This study indicates that plastic pollution has the potential to negatively impact coral reef ecosystems of the South Pacific, and warrants further study to explore the broader potential impacts of plastic pollution on coral reef ecosystems.

A New Challenge to International Law: The Disappearance of the Entire Territory of a State

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World

AbstractThe physical disappearance of a state's entire territory is an event forecasted to happen as a result of sea-level rise, affecting some of the smallest nation states in the world, primarily islands in the South Pacific. The focus of this article is on the human rights of the inhabitants of the disappearing states when they are forced to relocate.

scholarly journals Noted: Horror stories confront journalists

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-234
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The South ◽  
Border Town ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

Phil Thornton specialises in documenting the lives of opressed ordinary people. Eight years ago he was attached to the University of the South Pacific programme during the George Speight 'coup' doing human rights stories that few other journalists were touching.  In Restless Souls, Thornton provides colourful, evocative and tragic insights into the Karen people's struggle for freedom and the right to exist. He is based in part in the border town of Mae Sot—a bizarre community featuring aid peddlers, drug dealers, mercenaries, prostitutes, gem smugglers and freelance journalists. 

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