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Toxic Pollution Demands ‘Immediate, Ambitious Action’
New UN Report Shows Devastating Rights Toll of Environmental ‘Sacrifice Zones’
A new report by United Nations experts is raising renewed alarms about toxic pollution’s devastating impact on human rights.
- Juliane Kippenberg
- HRW
A particular focus of the report, presented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, is on so-called “sacrifice zones.”
These are areas where disadvantaged communities suffer extreme exposure to toxic chemicals, and where their rights are intentionally compromised – ostensibly for economic growth.
There are shocking examples of environmental injustice in such sacrifice zones across the globe, from…