Sajida Story

Title: Sajida Story

Description: This is the story of Sajida Khan, a South African woman with a hazardous dumpsite on her doorstep. Her neighbours are dying one by one, while the dump leaks gases and toxins into her air, water and earth. Meanwhile, the World Bank calls the dump a " world class example of an environmental project. " How can this be? This dramatic gap between the local community and the World Bank is because of the new Carbon Emissions Trading scheme in the Kyoto Protocol. Filmed during the UN World Summit on Sustainable Devlopment in Johannesburg 2002, and features protests by collalitions of local and international groups.

Format: MPEG4

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