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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

End child labour in gold mines

In Tanzania, I met "Julius", a boy of about 13, who works in an artisanal gold mine. He told me he digs ore in pits more than 15 metres deep and mixes toxic mercury with ground ore to retrieve the gold. Once a pit collapsed and almost killed another boy, his friend. The work had made him feel "pain in the whole body".
read more... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1080914/end-child-labour-gold-mines

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