Africa: Zambia’s Poisoned Children Have Waited Long Enough. Africa Needs to Act.

African Union child rights body considers landmark complaint against Zambia

For generations, children in Kabwe, Zambia, have grown up in the shadow of a toxic legacy. They have played on contaminated soil, breathed dangerous dust, and faced threats to their health and development from one of the world’s most lead-polluted places. Their suffering is the consequence of decades of inadequate environmental protection, insufficient corporate accountability, and government failure to address a public…