Human Rights Watch has also exposed the terrible abuses and right to
health violations -including fevers, nausea, and skin conditions that
leave fingers corroded to stumps, and flesh prematurely aged,
discolored, and itchy - that many thousands of people suffer while
working in tanneries in and around Hazaribagh, a neighbourhood of
Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. Our 2012 report, Toxic Tanneries,
shows these abuses are occurring in what is the backbone of the
country’s lucrative leather industry. The tanneries employ some 15,000
people - some as young as seven-years-old - and export millions of
dollars’ worth of leather goods to around seventy countries worldwide.
Our 2013 report on Tanzania, Toxic Toil, documented
similar abuses in Tanzania, especially affecting young children working
in small-scale gold mines. Many are exposed to toxic mercury and
vulnerable to mercury poisoning.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/david-mepham/putting-development-to-rights-post-2015-agenda
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