Today it is the World Day Against Child Labour 2014. This year’s attention is focused on the role of social protection in keeping children out of child labour and removing children from child labour.
Worldwide, an estimated 115 million children from 5 to 17 years old work in hazardous conditions.
Artisanal and small-scale mining is one of the worst forms of hazardous child labour, due to the risk of death, injury and long-term health problems resulting from heavy manual labour and exposure to dust and toxic chemicals. In Burkina Faso 20,000 children are estimated to be working in small-scale gold mines in five of the thirteen regions.
http://www.kidsrights.org/News/tabid/121/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/143/Minors-not-Miners-Hazardous-Child-Labour-with-a-focus-on-gold-mining-in-Burkina-Faso.aspx
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