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Exposed: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries. Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products, said Amnesty International and Afrewatch in a report published today.
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This article interrogates the magnitude of the problem of child labour in the gold mines of Uganda and seeks to highlight the gaps in the existing legal framework on the protection of Ugandan ... 4 JC Andvig, S Canagarajah and A Kielland "Child labor in Africa: issues and challenges" (2001) (World Bank Africa ...
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International Labour Organization, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) 4 route des Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva June 2006 Gold mining is extremely dangerous work for children. Yet still today, tens of thousands are found in the small-scale gold mines of Africa, Asia and South America. Children work both
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The magnitude of child labour in the gold mines of Uganda. ... 4 JC Andvig, S Canagarajah and A Kielland "Child labor in Africa: issues and challenges" (2001) (World Bank Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobrief no 194) at 2–3, available at: ...
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Mines – child labour is very common in gold mines located in parts of Africa, Asia and South America. Children face life-threatening risks every day in these mines such as explosions and very harsh chemicals and are forced to stand for hours at a …
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The issue of child labour in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) economy is attracting significant attention worldwide. This article critically examines this 'problem' in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, where a lack of formal sector employment opportunities and/or the need to provide financial support to their impoverished families …
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The enrolment of vulnerable children in school should be incentivised through ring-fenced funding and awareness campaigns to limit their recruitment into mining work. Given the problem of child labour in coltan mines, the approach to mineral certification needs a fresh look.
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The lives of child miners. Child Miners Speak explores the dirty, dangerous, and degrading lives of more than 50 children, ages 8 to 17, working at an artisanal copper and cobalt mine in the country's Katanga province of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.. Artisanal miners use their hands to extract materials, utilizing little …
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Under the Tanzanian labour law, the minimum employment age for the mines is 18 years. Thus, though the country's legal framework is in line with international standards prohibiting the engagement of children in hazardous work such as mining, the problem of child labour in small-scale gold mines persists in Tanzania.
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The participation of children in mining is widely recognized as one of the worst forms of child labour. Governments have a legal duty not only to prevent this, but eliminate it altogether. And product manufacturers have a responsibility to check for child labour in their supply chains, address it where they find it, and publicly disclose the ...
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Working in illegal mines puts children at risk of further problems such as physical abuse or modern slavery. 'Young are also vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation around mica mining sites', US Department of Labor wrote in the Report on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. To get paid, children need to fill in an entire basket with ...
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Artisanal gold mining in sub-Saharan Africa is heavily associated with worst forms of child labor. In general, child laborers in gold mining include both children working voluntarily as a means of supporting themselves or their families as well as …
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Action Plans to Address Child Labor in Mining: Includes the National Sectoral Strategy to Combat Child Labor in Artisanal Mines and Artisanal Mining Sites (2017–2025), which was developed by the Ministry of Mines and seeks to eradicate child labor in artisanal mining by 2025.
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The ACCEL Africa Project has the overarching goal to accelerate the elimination of child labour in Africa, through targeted actions in the cocoa, cotton, coffee, tea and gold supply chains. It adopts an innovative systems-approach to tackling child labour that moves away from project-based downstream interventions towards …
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Children in Zimbabwe are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking, and forced labor in mines and on farms. Children also engage in child labor in agriculture, including in the harvesting of sugarcane and tobacco.
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