Fifty years after the Vietnam War, researchers are still struggling to document the long-term health effects of the massive spraying of Agent Orange and other herbicides
Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies. Just compensation for victims of Agent Orange is a moral imperative.
Toxic waste from America’s war is destroying Iraqi communities. The US owes them legally and morally.
The Vietnam War ended, but the fight against the use of the chemical compound Agent Orange is far from over. Two women from opposite ends of the globe are united in their battle to hold the manufacturers of the toxic defoliant accountable.
America has never taken responsibility for spraying herbicide over Laos during the Vietnam War. But generations of ethnic minorities have endured the consequences.
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Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty.
Nearly 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed since the end of the war in 1975, and 67,000 maimed, by land mines, cluster bombs and other ordnance.
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