BBC investigation uncovers the deadly impact of the oil giant's toxic air pollution on children.
Many children in nearby villages have not survived their cancer diagnoses.
But for her father, watching her get sick, was "like being on fire without being able to extinguish it". David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, told us the people living near oil fields are "the victims of state-business collusion, and lack the political power in most cases to achieve change".Ali Hussein said: "Here in Rumaila nobody speaks out, they say they're scared to speak in case they get removed."
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