{"id":230501,"date":"2026-04-16T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-appeal-for-au-action-in-zambia-lead-poisoning-case\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:59:11","slug":"zambia-appeal-for-au-action-in-zambia-lead-poisoning-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-appeal-for-au-action-in-zambia-lead-poisoning-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Appeal for AU Action in Zambia Lead Poisoning Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Johannesburg \u2014 <em>Accountability Needed for Decades-Long Violations of Children&#8217;s Rights <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/zambia\" rel=\"noopener\">Zambia<\/a> 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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/african-union\" rel=\"noopener\">African Union<\/a> action to require the government and others involved to clean up the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), together with Zambian nongovernmental&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604160265.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2014 Accountability Needed for Decades-Long Violations of Children&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[6394,258,256,8992,6683,7358,257,13125,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-230501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-case","tag-lead","tag-news","tag-poisoning","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}