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This week the second meeting of states parties

to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

took place at the United Nations here in New York, bringing together survivors of

nuclear testing from around the world.

Today we're joined by two of them.

Hina Muyura, Morgan Cross, is a parliamentarian in French Polynesia, a former French colony in the southern Pacific Ocean

that served as a testing ground for France's nuclear experiments.

Her own leukemia is a legacy of the 193 French atomic tests in the South Pacific, motivating

her activism to ensure the stories of the victims are remembered and to pressure the French

government to accept responsibility and to provide medical and financial

support. She led the successful passage of a vote in September in the Assembly of French

Polynesia, a Department of France, to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The resolution urges France to attend future meetings of states parties as an observer.

She's also one of three 2023 laureates of the Nuclear Free Future Awards. three nuclear free future award winner.

Benedict Cabua Madison, a U.S. base, Marshallese activist whose work focuses on the legacy

of the U.S. atomic tests conducted in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, and the

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