The organization highlighted some of the challenges including inappropriate technologies; poor information, low levels of environmental awareness and a low asset base that perpetuate this poverty trap.
Women and children are the worst hit of pollution caused by unsafe methods of small-scale mining.
Women are often involved in processing and waste disposal, exposing them to harmful chemicals, with severe consequences for family well-being and health, including during pregnancy.
Children undertake arduous activities such as heavy lifting, digging, ore haulage and transport from as young as six years old and are working underground from the age of nine.
It is one of the worst forms of child labour because of widespread and severe hazards that risk death, injury and disease
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