This story is about how last spring the conservative Canadian government started denying chemotherapy to immigrants; not only that, they are forcing native Canadian communities to live amid carcinogenic tar…
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There has been recent reporting on lead poisoning in Nigeria. Health consequences of unsafe gold mining in northwestern Nigeria has lead to  severe lead poisoning near the mines that’s killed…
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Zimbabwe’s military is directly responsible for violence associated with the nation’s diamond fields, according to Zimbabwe’s Deputy Mines Minister. Minister Gift Chimanikire admitted that Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) owns 40%…
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Rape victims in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being forced to work in conditions of slavery in mines producing the coltan and tin ore used in cell phones,…
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Coltan, a rare but highly demanded mineral has contributed to mass turmoil in the Congo where extreme human rights violation has spawned due to coltan mining. Additionally, the money from…