Showing posts with label nfip. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 28, 2016
The ‘nuclear free’ Vanuatu girl with the enchanting smile
Riding out from Aneityum Island to the grass airstrip for the return flight back to Tanna.
By DAVID ROBIE
She had the most enchanting smile, even though she had lost her baby teeth. Her toothless grin turned out to be perfect for the role.
The five-year-old girl had her face painted with a black anti-nuclear symbol – different motifs on both her cheeks.
Beside her was a neatly sketched poster: “No nukes: Please don’t spoil my beautiful face”.
This was the scene in Port Vila’s Independence Park in 1983 during the region’s second Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Movement conference.
It was during the heady days of nuclear-free activism with Vanuatu, the world’s newest nation only three years old and founding Prime Minister Walter Hadye Lini leading the way.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Nuclear free: Now solved - the mystery of this ni-Vanuatu girl from 1983
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THIS GIRL is featured on the front cover of David Robie's 2014 book - Don't Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific (Little Island Press). It was taken in 1983 at Independence Park, Port Vila, Vanuatu, during the Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific conference.
She also appears in a Hawai'an Voice video version of the song Nuclear Free (at 1min08sec) by Huarere. I would love to know who she is and where she is today.
Perhaps she is in her late 30s today?
If anybody has any information about her identity and where she might be now, please email David Robie.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Media ignores major 'young leaders' Pacific politics forum
New Zealand Labour MPs Louisa Wall and Kris Fa'afoi, a former
journalist, speaking about the Marriage Amendment Bill and Pacific
culture in Parliament. The bill, designed to amend the 1955 Marriage Act
to enable gay couples to marry, decisively passed its third reading.
The MPs also spoke at this week's Pacific Parliament and Politics Forum
in Wellington. Video: Tagata Pasifika/NZ Parliament
Thanks to Pacific Media Watch:
By Michael Sergel and Finian Scott, two AUT University student journalists on the Asia-Pacific Journalism course reporting for the Pacific Media Centre and Pacific Scoop
GOVERNMENT and opposition MPs and NGO representatives from 18 countries made a significant commitment to gender equality and sustainable development last weekend, but the forum received limited coverage from New Zealand and international media.
More than 70 delegates from across the Pacific were in Wellington for the Pacific Parliamentary and Political Leaders Forum, including New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Bill English and other National, Labour, Green and independent MPs.
Delegates agreed on the need for greater action around gender equality, climate change and healthcare - but overwhelmingly rejected a push from the World Bank to free up trade conditions and deregulate economies.
NZAid invested $330,000 in the forum - the first of its kind in New Zealand history - but media coverage was scarce.
Thanks to Pacific Media Watch:
By Michael Sergel and Finian Scott, two AUT University student journalists on the Asia-Pacific Journalism course reporting for the Pacific Media Centre and Pacific Scoop
GOVERNMENT and opposition MPs and NGO representatives from 18 countries made a significant commitment to gender equality and sustainable development last weekend, but the forum received limited coverage from New Zealand and international media.
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Barred West Papuan leader Benny Wenda with PMC journalist Henry Yamo. Image: Del Abcede/PMC |
Delegates agreed on the need for greater action around gender equality, climate change and healthcare - but overwhelmingly rejected a push from the World Bank to free up trade conditions and deregulate economies.
NZAid invested $330,000 in the forum - the first of its kind in New Zealand history - but media coverage was scarce.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
John Miller, an icon and a treasure for Aotearoa, Pacific political protest
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Pacific Media Watch's Daniel Drageset and Karen MacKenzie interview photographer John Miller at the AUT seminar. Image: Del Abcede/PMC |
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Whina Cooper, Eva Rickard and Titiwhai Harawira at Waitangi, February, 1985. Photo: © John Miller: |
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