UN Urges More US Action on Marshall Islands Nuclear Legacy
- A United Nations report urged the United States to provide healthcare and release classified records to address its nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands.
- The United States conducted 67 nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958, including the 1954 Castle Bravo test.
- The UN human rights office said the tests caused severe and lasting harm, including cancer, displacement, and social stigma, while claims remain unsettled.
- Awa Dabo said, “The damage needs to be repaired.
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UN urges more US action on Marshall Islands nuclear legacy
The United States needs to take additional steps to remedy the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands by providing healthcare and releasing secret archives, according to a UN report presented to its human rights body on Thursday.
The United States must take additional measures to address the long-term consequences of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, including by providing health care for those affected and declassifying documents. This is stated in a UN report presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, BTA reports. Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands. Among them was Castle Bravo on Bikini Atoll in 195…
For the people of the Marshall Islands, the American nuclear testing era did not end with the last explosion in 1958. It continues in diseases, contaminated land, forced displacements and requests for reparations transmitted from one generation to another. "It persists in bodies and families," summarized [...]
Marshall Islands nuclear victims still seek justice 80 years after testing began
Geneva-- Eighty years after the first nuclear test was conducted in the Marshall Islands, survivors and their descendants are still seeking justice for the health, environmental, cultural and economic damage left by sixty-seven nuclear tests.
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