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 | Feb 19, 2013 | Ghana
Could you answer this question: Which country was the first to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty establishing civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children? Many middle school kids in Ghana know the answer....
by Free the Slaves | Nov 1, 2012 | Ghana
They carry heavy loads of sand, tirelessly pound rocks in intense heat, breathe poisonous dust and handle mercury with their bare hands. They are children, forced to endure unsafe working conditions as mining slaves. Their situation is documented in a new film by...
