Tag: Tahiti
David Robie: Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific
PROFILE: By Mong Palatino
Global Voices has interviewed veteran Aotearoa New Zealand writer and educator David Robie who discussed the state of Pacific media, journalism...
French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown
Fast-paced electronic music pumps in the background as a rapid montage of moving images flash across the screen.
In a 20...
New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia
COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono
There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand’s mainstream media has been reporting on in...
France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre
After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week’s French Polynesia sitting of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation...
French nuclear testing fallout in Pacific still affecting NZ men decades later
By Jimmy Ellingham
Fifty years ago 242 men left New Zealand on a mission to Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia.
The crew of HMNZS Otago, and...
‘We carry the voice of the colonised people’, delegates tell UN
By Finau Fonua
France’s grip on its overseas territories in the Pacific may be waning, with pro-independence delegates now claiming to have the support of...