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Peru: Authorities Neglect Indigenous Peoples Exposed to Contaminated Water - Native News Online

17.9.17

Peru: Authorities Neglect Indigenous Peoples Exposed to Contaminated Water - Native News Online: “The fact that the Peruvian authorities choose to do very little in the face of evidence that hundreds of Indigenous people have been exposed to toxic metals is not only cruel, but a violation of their right to health.”

Community members in Cuninico, in the country’s Amazonian region, told Amnesty International that in 2014 the river water and the fish, on which the community depend, started to taste strange.


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