Hinamoeura Cross is a Polynesian activist. She fights for recognition of and to draw attention to the legacy impact of French nuclear testing in the Pacific. Between 1966 and 1996, 193 nuclear tests were carried out in so-called French Polynesia. Since 1980, her family has been largely affected by thyroid cancer. In 2013, Hinamoeura Cross was diagnosed with leukaemia. In 2010, she spoke in front of the United Nations' 4th Committee to denounce the nuclear legacy on her people. In June 2022, she was one of two Polynesians invited to participate in the first Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in Vienna, Austria. In October 2022, she was in New York to denounce France's nuclear legacy and its failure to address the disastrous health and environmental consequences. She stresses the fact that the nuclear testing in Polynesia is inseparable from colonial history.