— Millions of Chinese children suffer from lead poisoning despite a crackdown on contamination, and local officials are systematically withholding the right to medical testing to cover up the problem, a rights group alleges.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday that authorities often are depriving victims of needed testing, treatment and prevention. It also says the government has failed to force polluting factories to close and clean up contamination despite its high-profile effort to crack down on heavy metals pollution.
