Curtailing Environmental Harms in Armed Conflict
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A slime-pit from a local phenol manufacturing plant on the outskirts of New York, formerly Novgorodske, on the front line in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, July 2021.
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November 6 is the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. The environment is often a silent casualty of war, so the day is an important opportunity to reflect on the ways armed conflicts often damage the environment and the need to safeguard the long-term health, security, and livelihood of the people affected.
Like much of the fallout from war, environmental harm lasts well beyond the armed conflict …read more
Source:: Human Rights Watch
