The group will assert to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that U.S. regulators violated the rights of tribal members by permitting uranium mining in New Mexico, The Washington Post reported.
Though uranium mining has been banned in the Navajo Nation since 2005, the petition claims that the human rights of Indigenous people were neglected after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission allowed Hydro Resources, Inc. to operate in situ leach mines, according to the Post…
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