联合国警告哥伦比亚在阿特拉托河流域的非法金矿开采污染对健康和人权构成严重的风险。 UN warns Colombia’s illegal gold mining pollution in Atrato River basin poses severe health and human rights risks.

联合国警告哥伦比亚,阿特拉托河流域非法金矿开采造成的汞污染造成了严重的人权危机,该河流域三分之一以上的人口暴露在不安全的汞水平之下,有神经和发育损害的危险。 The UN has warned Colombia that mercury pollution from illegal gold mining in the Atrato River basin has created a severe human rights crisis, with over a third of the river’s watershed population exposed to unsafe mercury levels, risking neurological and developmental harm. U.N.专家提到哥伦比亚政府由于政治不稳定、腐败和缺乏资金,未能执行2016年法院授予河流合法权利的裁决。 U.N. experts cited the Colombian government’s failure to enforce a 2016 court ruling granting the river legal rights, due to political instability, corruption, and lack of funding. 它们把污染与武装团体持续侵犯人权,包括强迫劳动和流离失所联系起来,并敦促立即采取行动,停止采矿、清理污染和保护受影响的土著和非洲裔社区。 They linked the pollution to ongoing human rights abuses by armed groups, including forced labor and displacement, and urged immediate action to stop mining, clean up contamination, and protect affected Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. 政府尚未对60多天前发出的信函作出答复。 The government has not responded to the letter sent over 60 days ago.