"Thousands of children work in licenced and unlicenced small-scale gold mines in Tanzania," HRW's report read, based on visits to 11 sites across the East African nation.
Many of the children are at risk of being poisoned by the dangerous mercury used to extract gold from raw ore, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
"The employment of children in dangerous mining work is one of the worst forms of child labour under international agreements, to which Tanzania is a party," it added.
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