Human Rights

How did the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster negatively affect the people's right to have a healthy place to live?

Article 25.

• (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
• (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
  

I need to find information on the health effects from the radiation. Look at information from the time period and compare it to the information that is available today. How has the cancer rate rose over the last 25 years? What was the early symptoms radiation poisoning.

Human Rights

1. The Chernobyl disaster interested me because I have watched different programs on television and the internet about the disaster, and how the people were forced out of their homes. I have looked at videos online showing how the town looks today. Another thing that intertest me about the Chernobyl disaster is the town of Prypiat, which was deserted during the disaster. It is interesting seeing how the buildings in the town were just left. In one video, it shows a movie that was filmed in Prypiat. The building looks the same. The people in the videos show how they still have to use radiation detection devices to go into the town. People can only go into the town at certain times of the year because of level of radiation. 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSpdSyT1ys

http://books.google.com/books?id=uXNNUzVQ_z8C&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=chernobyl+human+rights+violation&source=bl&ots=tYu0A5PECL&sig=y4oqdOvgiaJjbDywxRRd_xwtqZs&hl=en&ei=MgfzTPnzLsOclgeX89zwDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-dowwkmdo

www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/.../G0111897.doc

3.  How far did the radiation stretch? How did the Soviet Union try to move the people? What is being done today to stop the radiation seeping through the structure containing the nuclear reactor? How does this violate Article 24 and 25? Why did it take the Soviet Union 10 days to report the disaster?