Mwai Daka and Nick Queffurus

Mwai is a postgraduate student at the University of Law, Bristol. He is currently a Regional Correspondent at the Oxford Human Rights Hub. He completed an MA in Politics from the University of Sheffield in 2016. His main political and legal research interests are displacement, labour law, environmental law, democracy, comparative constitutionalism, and human rights. Nick completed the MSc in African Studies at Oxford in 2018, researching the role of data analytics companies during the 2017 Kenyan elections, and was on the Oxford Pro Bono Publico Executive Committee. His main legal research interests are in business and human rights, comparative constitutionalism and labour law, sparked during his LLB at Bristol University.

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Kabwe mine: taking rights seriously in a toxic city

Kabwe mine: taking rights seriously in a toxic city

Mining activities in Zambia, while economically beneficial (accounting for roughly 70 per cent of GDP), have produced negative effects, not least pollution to the environment.  The scale of industrial pollution across the Copperbelt ...