Uranium mining and human rights

Wherever uranium has been mined, health problems, disease, death and environmental degradation has followed. From the Navajo Nation to Niger, indigenous people have most often endured these hardships. Today, the Navajo in New Mexico are struggling to ensure that the 2005 ban on uranium mining on their land is respected and upheld. The Havasupai are attempting to block uranium mining that will contaminate the pristine waters of the Grand Canyon. The nomadic Touareg in Niger are literally fighting to stop further exploitation of their Sahara Desert environment on which they depend for subsistence. These struggles and more - in Australia, Canada, Argentina, Namibia and elsewhere - have repeated themselves over the decades and threaten to get worse as nuclear corporations attempt not to exploit climate change by pushing for new uranium mines across the globe. Read or download our new brochure. And read and download the spring 2009 issue of The Thunderbird - covering uranium mining.