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The Andean Town That Took Its Poisoning to an International Court

Clean Air

🇵🇪 Peru

For decades the smelter at La Oroya put so much lead, arsenic and sulphur dioxide into the air that children's blood tested above safe limits almost universally — and in 2024 an international court finally said the state was responsible.

80peopleVictims recognised by the Inter-American Court
27yearsYears from AIDA taking the case to judgment
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