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Individual consultant to develop occupational health and safety artisanal and small-scale mining guiding documents
Professor Samuel Kwaku Bonsu, Rector, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, has called on researchers and authorities to develop comprehensive decent work strategies to defend workers' rights. He said the protection of human rights and prioritizing the interests of workers were key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…
About 800,000 people are dependent on the sub-sector.
A recent report penned by and involving 25 countries found that 15 million artisanal and small-scale gold miners are exposed to mercury, a potent neurotoxin. However, these same nations did not [...]
At the MIT Conference on Mining, Environment, and Society, the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative convened academics, industry, government officials and NGOs to discuss the environmental and social challenges of supplying the critical minerals for solar, batteries, the electric grid, and more, and to identify opportunities for future collaboration.