International: A Call To Protect Indigenous Communities From Waste Producing Industries

International: A Call To Protect Indigenous Communities From Waste Producing Industries   For several decades after the Second World War, the Marshall Islands, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, were administered by the United States under trusteeship arrangements with the United Nations until 1986, when it became a sovereign nation. For more than a decade from the mid 1940’s, the US conducted extensive nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, including the detonation of...

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