A statement issued by local environmentalists quoted the Human Rights Watch as saying that it has documented the harmful use of mercury by miners in Mali, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.
The World Health Organisation assembly was scheduled to discuss a resolution on the new international treaty on mercury, the Minamata Convention, yesterday.
In Papua New Guinea, a doctor speaking to Human Rights Watch researchers about the impact of mercury on small-scale gold miners said: “We have dozens of cases of mercury poisoning…. They stare blankly at the wall. You cannot talk to them, they are not conversant.”
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