Rights group: Gov’t failed to protect child miners

2016-02-29 1

Thousands of Filipino children, some as young as 9 years old, risk their lives by working in illegal, small-scale gold mines under terrifying conditions and the government has not done enough to protect them, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

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