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...
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...
by Free the Slaves | Mar 6, 2012 | Ghana
Ghana celebrates 55 years of independence today. As the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve autonomy from European Colonialism, it has much to take pride in. To most Ghanaians, this day symbolizes freedom. Ghana may be politically free, but not everyone...
