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Inter Press Service: Thousands of victims affected by toxic waste dumping in 2006 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, still have not received the economic compensation they were promised.
"There is a complete lack of transparency as to what happened to the millions of dollars which should have been paid out by the government compensation scheme," Benedetta Lacey, special advisor on corporate accountability at Amnesty International, told IPS.
According to a United Nations report published in 2009, toxic......
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Toxic Waste Victims Wait Years for Compensation
Posted by Inter Press Service: Inaki Borda on September 6th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation