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By: apeaceofconflict

apeaceofconflict — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:16:19 +0000

That’s soo sad. It angers me to think that people would be so heartless that they would do this, especially the roughing up of those who would dare complain.
It’s strange, because if you were to tell this story in North America people would be absolutely outraged, but in essence, this is what is happening all over the place– yet in more indirect ways. It’s a different level and scale of what’s going on. Here in North America, we may have requirements for raw sewage in residential areas, but there are no requirements for many other more deadly pollutions. And the corruption that goes on here happens behind closed doors and sometimes even through somewhat “legal” channels, but it happens none the less.
It always seems to come down to money. Those who make it, have more say. They seem to have more rights than those who don’t have it. This is just not right. We should all have the same rights. We are all human.

By: tumwijuke

tumwijuke — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:32:21 +0000

Totally hitting the nail on the head!

The most impoverished areas in my city are those in which there is the most pollution. In November last year a group of slum dwellers just below my office confronted the ‘rich man’ living in a walled house next to them over his constant dumping of raw human waste in their storm water canal. He called in the police and had them roughed up. That month, a cholera epidemic broke out in the slum. Three slum dwellers died.

Environmental issues should be at the top of every human rights agenda.

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