Thousands of children in the Philippines risk their lives every day mining gold. Children work in unstable 25-meter-deep pits that could collapse at any moment, or underwater, along the shore, or in rivers, with oxygen tubes in their mouths. They also process gold with mercury, a toxic metal, risking irreversible health damage from mercury poisoning.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/08/16/human-rights-watch-submission-philippines-committee-economic-social-and-cultural
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