![Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Suffer Harms from Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Industry [Video]](https://video.travel4meaning.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/mp_206984_0_0jpg.jpg)
The fossil fuel and petrochemical industry in the Louisiana area that has come to be known as “Cancer Alley” has devastated the health, lives, and environment of residents, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Cancer Alley refers to an approximately 85-mile stretch of communities along the banks of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, where communities exist side by side with some 200 fossil fuel and petrochemical operations. The 85-page report, “‘We’re Dying Here’: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone,” documents how residents of Cancer Alley suffer the effects of extreme pollution from the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry, facing elevated rates and risks of maternal, reproductive, and newborn health harms, cancer, and respiratory ailments. Parts of Cancer Alley have the highest risk of cancer from industrial air pollution in the United States. These harms are disproportionately borne by the area’s Black residentsTo support our work, please visit: https://hrw.org/donateHuman Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.orgSubscribe for more: https://bit.ly/2OJePrw
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![Shipping Companies Profit at the Expense of Bangladeshi Lives and the Environment. [Video]](https://video.travel4meaning.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mp_176380_0_0jpg.jpg)
(Dhaka, September 28, 2023) – Many European shipping companies are knowingly sending their end-of-life ships for scrap in dangerous and polluting yards in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch and the NGO Shipbreaking Platform said in a report released today.The report, “Trading Lives for Profit,” finds that Bangladeshi shipbreaking yards often take shortcuts on safety measures, dump toxic waste directly onto the beach and the surrounding environment, and deny workers living wages, rest, or compensation in case of injuries. The report reveals an entire network used by shipowners to circumvent international regulations prohibiting the export of ships to facilities like those in Bangladesh that do not have adequate environmental or labor protections.To support our work, please visit: https://hrw.org/donate.Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.orgSubscribe for more: https://bit.ly/2OJePrw
![Zambia: Clean Up Lead Contamination in Kabwe [Video]](https://video.travel4meaning.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/mp_155369_0_0jpg.jpg)
(Johannesburg, July 20, 2023) – The Zambian government should make comprehensive efforts to clean up the contaminated former lead mine in Kabwe, the capital of Zambia’s Central province, Environment Africa and Human Rights Watch said today. The organizations released a video in which youth activists from Environment Africa describe life in a dangerously polluted town and actions needed to remedy the situation. Kabwe is one of the worst pollution hot spots in Africa because of contamination from a former lead and zinc mine. The mine was originally owned directly or indirectly by Anglo-American and other British colonial companies, later nationalized, and closed in 1994. But the mine’s toxic waste was never cleaned up. As a result, lead dust from its large uncovered waste dumps blows over to nearby residential areas such as Chowa, Kasanda, and Makululu, putting the health of 200,000 people at risk.To support our work, please visit: https://hrw.org/donateHuman Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.orgSubscribe for more: https://bit.ly/2OJePrw