UN Official Shocked By Toxic Conditions in US Black Belt: 'Worst Poverty' in First World
UN Official Shocked By Toxic Conditions in US Black Belt: 'Worst Poverty ' in First World - The tour by Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has cast a light on an issue known well to poverty -blighted communities and oppressed nationalities in the U.S. : inequitable local policies that safeguard environmental racism by literally concentrating toxic ...