"How children in Ghana as young as 5 risk their lives working in mines", 24 Nov 2016

Over 74,200 children have been identified to be working under dangerous conditions in small-scale mining and at quarry sites, the 2014 Child Labour Report of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS6, 2014) [released recently], has revealed. The report indicated that as the children, who are between five and 17 years work in those sites, they are exposed to mercury which causes injury to the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs as well as the entire immune system...The report revealed that many of the children had developed awkward postures following the long periods that they have to bend while they look for diamonds separate gold ore from other sand particles at the mine sites...