All ILO Newsroom content

October 2012

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   South Africa mines

   Social dialogue needed to prevent further violence in SA mines, says ILO

   01 October 2012

   The ILO calls for social dialogue and a review of labour market institutions to avoid further violence in the South African mining industry

August 2012

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   Working conditions

   South Africa could do more for miners, says ILO mining specialist

   24 August 2012

   The killings of more than 30 workers in the Marikana platinum mine have put the spotlight on working conditions in South Africa’s mining industry.

May 2011

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   World Day against Child Labour, 12 June 2011

   From child labourer to child advocate: How Rodel succeeded in leaving the mineshaft

   26 May 2011

   More than half (53 per cent) of the 215 million child labourers worldwide do hazardous work. While their number is increasing among older children, aged 15-17, progress is being made for younger children, aged 5-14, says the latest ILO report on child labour “Children in Hazardous Work”. Some of them succeed in leaving the dark tunnel of a mineshaft or other dangerous workplaces, as the example of Rodel from the Philippines shows.

October 2010

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   Entrevistas en vídeo

   ILO Director-General Juan Somavia highlights the courage of the 33 Chilean miners

   13 October 2010

   With the rescue team still at work, ILO Director General Juan Somavia spoke with ILO TV and emphasized the strength and courage of the 33 trapped Chilean miners, their families and the Chilean people who together made possible what seemed so impossible.

December 2009

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   Video

   With the Global Jobs Pact, South African Trade Unions Place Emphasis on Re-training of Workers

   01 December 2009

   "We have taken the Global Jobs Pact into our South African framework response to the economic crisis and we have been working on issues to address the distressed sectors, putting an emphasis on re-training and re-skilling of workers," said Bheki Ntshalintshali, Deputy General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, in an interview with ILO TV.

June 2009

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   World Day against Child Labour 2009

   Girls in gold-mining: “I don’t want my children to be like me”

   10 June 2009

   Over 18,000 girls and boys are engaged in mining and quarrying in the Philippines. For many generations, the search for gold in small-scale mining has been a means of survival for poor families. Girls in such work are particularly vulnerable. Minette Rimando, ILO press officer in Manila, wrote this report for ILO Online.

September 2007

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   Article

   Out of sight – girls in mining

   13 September 2007

   A new ILO study shows that not only are children still being forced to work in mines, but many of them are girls. It is child labour in its worst form: young girls risk permanent injury from carrying heavy loads of rock and contamination from nerve-damaging mercury. Without a chance to go to school, they are locked into a life of poverty. ILO Online reports.

October 2006

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   Video

   Informal Gold Mining in Mongolia

   11 October 2006

   Severe drought and heavy loss of livestock have led traditional Mongolian herders to mine gold in order to survive. Their work is hazardous and illegal. A new law has been proposed to help improve the working conditions of 100,000 informal gold miners.

June 2005

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   Video

   Children Exploited in Mongolian Gold Rush

   27 June 2005

   Many working in makeshift Mongolian gold mines are children whose families seek a way out of poverty. The ILO is trying to remove these children from one of the most hazardous jobs in the world.

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   Video

   PERU: CHILD LABOUR IN GOLD MINES

   23 June 2005

   In Peru, up to 50 000 children work as gold miners in small-scale mines, braving dangerous conditions and constantly at risk from accidents. In Santa Filomena, the International Labour Organization is working together with a local group to put an end to child labour.