Third-year student Scott Phillips did research on the government's response to illegal small-scale mining, an industry that may be affecting the health of hundreds of thousands of the country's poorer residents who work in the mines, including children and pregnant women. The use of mercury to separate gold from the dirt is one of the major concerns, he said.
"Because mercury affects the health of these people and the environments in which these people live, I saw the connection to human rights," Phillips said. "The mercury gets into food supplies and poisons the miners while they're working. And that's incredibly damaging because mercury will go right to your system and stay there for a very long time."
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