Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross

Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross
Member of the French Polynesian Assembly
for Windward Isles 2
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 May 2023
Personal details
Born1988[1]
Political partyTāvini Huiraʻatira

Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross (born 1988) is a French Polynesian anti-nuclear activist and politician. She is the daughter of politician Valentina Cross and a member of Tāvini Huiraʻatira. As an MP she proposed a resolution that the Assembly of French Polynesia support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. In November 2023 she was awarded the Nuclear-Free Future Award.[2]

Early life and education

She is the daughter of politician Valentina Cross[3] and a member of Tāvini Huiraʻatira. Morgant-Cross is from Teva I Uta.[3] She was seven years old in 1996 when the last bomb in a series of thirty years of nuclear detonations on French Polynesia was made.[4] Morgant-Cross has suffered from leukemia from the age of 25, and several of her family members also have cancer, which she believes is a result of France's nuclear detonations in the Pacific.[2][5][4][6]

Political career

Morgant-Cross is a member of Association 193 and Mururoa e Tatou,[1] and has represented French Polynesia at meetings of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.[5] In 2019 she spoke at the United Nations about how French President Charles de Gaulle presented the nuclear detonations programme to people in Tahiti as "a major development" of which they should be proud.[6] She was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia in the 2023 French Polynesian legislative election.[7] As an MP she proposed a resolution that the Assembly support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,[8] and supported term-limits for Assembly members.[9]

In November 2023 she was awarded the Nuclear-Free Future Award.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Hinamoeura MORGANT-CROSS". Assemblée de la Polynésie française. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Hinamoeura Cross reçoit son prix à New York" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 28 November 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Qui sont nos 57 nouveaux élus" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 10 May 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Decolonizing the mind". Norwegian People's Aid. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Hinamoeura Cross, militante anti-nucléaire, veut " éduquer et dénucléariser les mémoires "" (in French). TNTV. 2 July 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  6. ^ a b Fuatai, Teuila (8 February 2025). "'So many people have cancer' — living with the French nuclear legacy in the Pacific". E-Tangata. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
  7. ^ "La nouvelle composition de l'assemblée" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 1 May 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Une résolution pour soutenir le Traité sur l'interdiction des armes nucléaires" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 12 September 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Hinamoeura Cross propose la limitation des mandats des élus" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 2 November 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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