Human Rights Watch is also reporting that young workers are
being exposed to mercury at dangerously high rates. Tanzania played a
critical role in the creation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, intended to regulate and reduce signatory countries’ mercury pollution. When ingested, mercury leads to neurological and gastrointestinal damage.
Now Tanzania is being called out for not following through
with the convention’s stipulations, allowing young boys to work in
unlicensed mines where they handle mercury and inhale its fumes during a
gold burning process.
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