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Chinese government officials in provinces with high rates of industrial pollution are restricting access to lead testing, withholding and falsifying test results, and denying children treatment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

Family members and journalists seeking information about the problem are intimidated and harassed, Human Rights Watch said. Such actions violate Chinese law and condemn hundreds of thousands of children to permanent mental and physical disabilities.
The 75-page report, "‘My Children Have Been Poisoned': A Public Health Crisis in Four Chinese Provinces," draws on research in heavily lead-contaminated villages in Henan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, and Hunan provinces. The report documents how, despite increasing regulation and sporadic enforcement targeting polluting factories, local authorities are ignoring the urgent and long-term health consequences of a generation of children continuously exposed to life-threatening levels of lead. (...)

The article:
http://www.hrw.org/node/99793
More about:

http://business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1006773

The Report:
http://www.hrw.org/node/99451

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China - Despite the recent crackdown on lead battery producers and smelters, weak enforcement of environmental laws persists:

http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1006664

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Inquinamento industriale ad Harbin:

http://it.peacereporter.net/articolo/28853/Cina%2C+Hayao%2C+una+malattia+senza+cura

http://business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1006798

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Health in China - Basic information:

http://www.who.int/countries/chn/en/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health-care_in_China

http://www.unicef.org/china/health.html