This 82-page report documents the use of child labor in Ghana’s artisanal, or unlicensed, mines, where most mining takes place. It is estimated that thousands of children work in hazardous ...

Juliane Kippenberg, senior children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, has written a comment on South China Morning Post regarding child labour in artisanal and small-scale mines all ...

Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo’s southeastern mining heartland are boosting efforts to tackle child labour amid concerns that the coronavirus pandemic could drive more families to ...

The London Metal Exchange has come under increasing pressure after a 2017 Amnesty International report found child labor and human rights abuses at cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

The current state of child labor and human rights violations in Congo's mining sector "is particularly critical," a Jesuit priest told a recent House hearing looking into accusations China is ...

Human Rights Watch has documented the use of child labor in small-scale gold mining in Mali, Ghana, and Tanzania. Children are subject to the worst forms of child labor—in particular, hazardous ...

The London Metal Exchange has come under increasing pressure after a 2017 Amnesty International report found child labor and human rights abuses at cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The lawsuit over child labor in cobalt mines Apple is the first defendant named in a lawsuit filed yesterday by a human rights firm on behalf of children and their families. The Guardian reports.