{"id":27194,"date":"2021-01-22T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/22\/small-but-mighty-pacific-states-have-led-the-charge-for-banning-nuclear-weapons"},"modified":"2021-01-22T04:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:00:26","slug":"small-but-mighty-pacific-states-have-led-the-charge-for-banning-nuclear-weapons-emily-defina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27194","title":{"rendered":"Small but mighty, Pacific states have led the charge for banning nuclear weapons | Emily Defina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A global treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons becomes international law today. But the fight to rid the world of these dismal weapons continues.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995, thousands of people marched peacefully hand-in-hand through the Tahitian capital of Pape\u2019ete. The palm-lined streets were awash with songs of protest.<\/p>\n<p>On a nearby shorefront, Cook Islanders had just arrived by traditional voyaging canoe: a <em>vaka<\/em>. They were there to deliver a message of solidarity with their island neighbours, en route to the nuclear test site of Moruroa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/22\/small-but-mighty-pacific-states-have-led-the-charge-for-banning-nuclear-weapons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A global treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons becomes international law today. But the fight to rid the world of these dismal weapons continues.In 1995, thousands of people marched peacefully hand-in-hand through the Tahitian capital of Pape\u2019ete. The pal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,855,65,436,568,441,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cook-islands","category-environment","category-fiji","category-nuclear-waste","category-nuclear-weapons","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27196,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27194\/revisions\/27196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}