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Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations

Fukushima, Nuclear and Gender, Nuclear Energy, Radiation and Health April 12, 2020 at 5:47 am 0 comments

A group of over 10 mothers who set up a citizen-led laboratory to monitor radiation levels in Fukushima following the massive earthquake and tsunami which caused meltdowns at the nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture 9 years ago, continue to record and disclose radiation data on foodstuffs and soil collected or brought in by people from different parts of the prefecture, as well as seawater off the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Workers at a school ground in Namie Town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. In March 2017 the Japanese government opened this area of Namie for people to return. Greenpeace radiation surveys in October 2018, showed high levels of contamination in the forests surrounding this school. Over 70,000 workers have been employed in recent years in Fuksuhima. United Nations Special Rapporteurs on human rights warned in 2018 of the urgent situation for workers, including homeless, who were reportedly being exploited by hundreds of sub contractors. This area of Iitate was opened by the government in March 2017, but still radiation levels remain high in areas of Iitate and above government decontamination targets.

Fukushima women and children on the frontline: Greenpeace report exposes continued radiation risks on 8 years of nuclear accident

Fukushima, Nuclear and Children, Nuclear and Gender, Reports March 10, 2019 at 12:17 am 0 comments

Latest Greenpeace report on the 8 years of the Fukushima nuclear accident exposes continued radiation risks and human rights violations in Japan.

Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy: Ray Acheson’s must-watch TED Talk

Nuclear and Gender, Videos January 17, 2019 at 2:03 am 0 comments

Ray Acheson challenges the foundation of international security to raise one simple question: do nuclear weapons really keep us safer? Her ambition: show that the nuclear arms race is a manifestation of masculine power and dismantle the supposed natural order of things to build a more secure and peaceful world.

Remembering the ‘anti-nationals’ of Koodankulam: Why criminalisation of dissent has a long and tortured history

Antinuclear Movement, India's Nuclear Expansion, Koodankulam, Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Democracy, Nuclear and Gender, Nuclear Energy September 18, 2018 at 8:16 am 0 comments

Sonali Huria | The Leaflet The frequency with which the Supreme Court of India has made pronouncements on the question of “dissent” in recent times, with the Court most recently observing that dissent is the “safety valve” of democracy, underscores the fact that the “right to dissent” in India isRead More