Human Rights Watch Issues Commentary: World Environment Day - Zambia's Mining Pollution Victims Need Justice
June 06, 2026
June 06, 2026
NEW YORK, June 6 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch posted the following commentary by Juliane Kippenberg, associate director in the Children's Rights Division:
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World Environment Day: Zambia's Mining Pollution Victims Need Justice
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Mining pollution has been a fact of life for 15-year-old "Joyce" as long as she can remember. Joyce, whose real name is different, lives in the Zambian city of Kabwe, where min . . .
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World Environment Day: Zambia's Mining Pollution Victims Need Justice
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Mining pollution has been a fact of life for 15-year-old "Joyce" as long as she can remember. Joyce, whose real name is different, lives in the Zambian city of Kabwe, where min . . .