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An Opportunity to Address Mining Abuses Globally When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers of dead fish and the water had a strange smell. The cause was a major mining disaster. On February 18, a dam at a Chinese copper mine had burst and released toxic waste into a tributary of Zambia’s largest river, threatening the ecosystem, the livelihood of millions, and putting communities at grave risk of cancer and other ill-health. https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/12/01/an-opportunity-to-address-mining-abuses-globally