by Free the Slaves | Mar 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
All too often, the price of gold includes a human toll. At many mining sites, children are exploited as workers. A new report by Free the Slaves, Child Rights in Mining, examines the problem of child slavery and child labor at informal gold mines. Investigators...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 4, 2013 | FTS Updates, Ghana
Boys as young as 12 are working with dangerous chemicals to extract gold dust from ore. Girls as young as 10 are prostituted in mining camps and are pushed into relationships with older men. These deeply moving stories of children losing their childhoods and freedom...
