Landmark Court Ruling Upholds Right to Healthy Environment
April 18, 2024
April 18, 2024
NEW YORK, April 18 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news:
Last month, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the Peruvian government responsible for violating the right to a healthy environment, among other rights, of residents of La Oroya, a town exposed to toxic pollution from a mine and smelter complex, the first ruling of its kind before the Court. The town is so polluted that one study by Peru's Ministry of Health in 2005 found that 9 . . .
Last month, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the Peruvian government responsible for violating the right to a healthy environment, among other rights, of residents of La Oroya, a town exposed to toxic pollution from a mine and smelter complex, the first ruling of its kind before the Court. The town is so polluted that one study by Peru's Ministry of Health in 2005 found that 9 . . .