Zambia: Appeal for AU Action in Zambia Lead Poisoning Case

Johannesburg — Accountability Needed for Decades-Long Violations of Children’s Rights

Zambia should provide accountability for its failure to clean up a contaminated mine site that is responsible for the ongoing lead poisoning of children, Human Rights Watch said today in supporting a request for African Union action to require the government and others involved to clean up the site.

The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), together with Zambian nongovernmental…