A Chance to Protect Children and the Environment

It is high time. Too often, governments fail to regulate businesses that generate toxins to which children are then exposed. Human Rights Watch has documented the consequences of those failures for children who have been exposed to toxic chemicals from leather tanneries, artisanal gold mines,battery factories, lead smelters, andpesticides-sprayed farms, among others. Because of this exposure, children – whose developing bodies are especially vulnerable – have become sick and even died. Parents speaking out have sometimes faced reprisals. The children most affected are typically from poor areas or disadvantaged minority groups.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/09/22/chance-protect-children-and-environment