Impact and people
2021
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ILO in action: We work to end child labour in DR Congo’s cobalt mines
09 November 2021
ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Josée Blandine Ongotto, speaks from the field about the COTECCO Project, which is combating child labour in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with funding from the US Department of Labor.
2019
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Cutting-edge mining in Sweden, where automation is the solution, not a threat
19 August 2019
An ILO News team went deep underground into one of the world’s most advanced mines to find out how technology has affected jobs, safety and the integration of women.
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Community action to fight child labour
12 June 2019
By working with local communities an ILO project in Bangladesh has succeeded in removing 2,000 children from child labour.
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Out of the mines and into school
12 June 2019
An ILO project in Ghana’s artisanal mining communities is helping to reduce child labour and open up opportunities for education for vulnerable children.
2018
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How the ILO helps prevent mining accidents in Ukraine
09 July 2018
Ukraine is among the countries with the highest rates of work accidents in mines. Therefore, the ILO trains miners on the prevention of accidents in the industry.
2017
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See you at my "playground": Tackling child labour in gold mining
12 June 2017
How an ILO project in the Philippines addresses the consequences of climate change and child labour, while improving working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
2011
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World Day against Child Labour, 12 June 2011
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.
2009
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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.
2007
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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.