Factory Poisons Community in Kenya

Publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Publication Date:
23 June 2014
Tags:
Kenya, Industry and Infrastructure, Health and Medicine, Environment

Thousands of people in a poor urban district outside Mombasa face serious health consequences from toxic lead from a battery recycling plant. The crisis is the result of the Kenyan government's failure to adequately regulate the lead smelter in the Owino Uhuru district.

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