Mercury Treaty: Hope for Child Gold Miners?

Hundreds of thousands of adults and children work in Tanzania’s small gold mines. And Tanzania is not alone. The International Labour Organization estimates that one million children work in mining globally. Human Rights Watch also has documented children’s mercury exposure in mining communities in Mali, Ghana, and Papua New Guinea.
For these children, mercury may be cutting their lives short. When I visited a mining community in Tanzania recently, I spoke to children working with mercury and observed toddlers inhaling toxic fumes from the burning mercury-gold amalgam. What can be done to protect these children from mercury? Does anyone even care?
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