Building Momentum to Hold Companies to Account

Expand Children pan for gold along the Bosigon River in Malaya, Camarines Norte.    © 2015 Mark Z. Saludes for Human Rights Watch Millions of adults and children around the world suffer abuses as workers who obtain raw materials, toil on farms, and make products for the global market. They are at the bottom of global supply chains, for everything from everyday goods like vegetables and seafood to luxury items like jewelry and designer clothing that end up on store shelves worldwide. “Ruth,” age 13, is one of them. We met her processing gold by mixing toxic mercury with her bare hands into…

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