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Human Rights

The entire nuclear fuel chain involves the release of radioactivity, contamination of the environment and damage to human health. Most often, communities of color, indigenous peoples or those of low-income are targeted to bear the brunt of these impacts, particularly the damaging health and environmental effects of uranium mining. The nuclear power industry inevitably violates human rights. While some of our human rights news can be found here, we also focus specifically on this area on out new platform, Beyond Nuclear International.

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Entries from September 1, 2009 - September 30, 2009

Wednesday
Sep092009

UN forum highlights contamination problem in Central Asia from uranium mining

A United Nations forum that examined the impacts of uranium mining contamination from tailings in Central Asia took place last June in Geneva. The uranium tailings are a legacy from the military-industrial complex of the former USSR. The state of these tailings which contain huge wastes of uranium and other technological wastes over tens of years after shutdown of these enterprises have significantly worsened, the forum found.

DateSeptember 9, 2009 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |
Wednesday
Sep092009

7th Indigenous Uranium Forum coming up in October

Please consider supporting in any way you can the 7th Indigenous Uranium Forum, October 22,23, and 24 at San Fidel (Acoma Pueblo), New Mexico. Registration is open and reasonable and can be found on the forum Web site.

DateSeptember 9, 2009 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |