- North Korea says orphan children volunteering on mines and farms https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-30/north-korea-orphans-volunteer-to-work-in-mines/100176574 11 comments nottheonion
- North Korea says children volunteering on mines and farms https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57293167 22 comments nottheonion
- The ancient copper mines dug by children http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160420-the-ancient-copper-mines-dug-by-bronze-age-children 5 comments history
- Samsung admits its phones may contain tin from area mined by children http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/25/samsung-tin-mines-indonesia-child-labour 11 comments worldnews
- Friend of mine is riding across Canada in memory of his son in order to raise money for children's cancer http://mikeleiter.snkcr.com/ 4 comments bicycling
- Australian children lose bid to block coal mine expansion https://apnews.com/article/australia-climate-change-environment-and-nature-business-c86a529d6b5cff80d21e23ad0aee7877 22 comments worldnews
- Tech giants sued over 'appalling' deaths of children who mine their cobalt https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5399491/tech-giants-sued-over-appalling-deaths-of-children-who-mine-their-cobalt-1.5399492 1594 comments technology
- Nigerian children suffering in lead poisoning crisis in villages near gold mines http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22128957 4 comments worldnews
- Amish, whose children were victims in the Nickel Mines school shooting, write letters to the parents of Connecticut school massacre. http://www.witf.org/news/2012/12/shooting-brings-memories-for-amish-in-nickel-mines-and-a-desire-to-help.php 7 comments politics
- DR Congo frees 11,506 children from mines http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/04/c_13430184.htm 5 comments worldnews
- 'Majority of Mine Victims Are Children': EU Condemns Trump Rollback of Landmine Restrictions https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/04/majority-mine-victims-are-children-eu-condemns-trump-rollback-landmine-restrictions 30 comments politics
- Apple, Samsung, Sony And Microsoft Under Fire For Allegedly Doing Business With Cobalt Mines That Employ Children http://www.seosuf.com/tech/apple-samsung-sony-and-microsoft-under-fire-for-allegedly-doing-business-with-cobalt-mines-that-employ-children/ 69 comments technology
- Vietnam war victim and his son lives 40 years in the Woods after a mine destroyed his home and killed his wife and 2 children http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=utf-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpanorama%2Fgesellschaft%2Fvietnam-vater-und-sohn-sollen-40-jahre-im-wald-gelebt-haben-a-915475.html 7 comments worldnews
- Gov. Sanford's Wife: "His Career Is Not A Concern Of Mine" ... "He's going to have to worry about that. I'm worried about my family and the character of my children." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/06/25/gov_sanfords_wife_his_career_is_not_a_concern_of_mine.html 39 comments politics
- Remember: history shows categorically that once the state can lock `them' up without a fair trial, torture, rape them or sodomize them - well; sooner or later it will be able to do the same to your children or mine; or to you and me. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/busted-pentagon-why-the-p_b_209046.html 57 comments politics
- Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell sued over cobalt mined by children in Congo for batteries https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-google-microsoft-tesla-dell-sued-over-cobalt-mining-children-in-congo-for-batteries-2019-12-17/ 40 comments worldnews
- Tech giants including Tesla and Apple sued after Congolese children die in cobalt mines https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cobalt-mining-apple-tesla-dell-microsoft-google-congo-lawsuit-a9249446.html 87 comments worldnews
- A CBS News investigation has found children as young as 4 years old are being used to mine for cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-there-are-4-year-olds-mining-cobalt-to-power-your-devices 114 comments worldnews
- A friend of mine has hand knitted over 7500 caps for children cancer patients. Please upvote to help her get noticed! http://kozykaps4kids.org 276 comments reddit.com
- Chile's opposition on Wednesday moved to impeach the country's president, Sebastian Pinera, for the controversial sale of a mining company through a firm owned by his children, which appeared in the Pandora Papers leaks https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211013-chile-opposition-moves-to-impeach-pinera-over-pandora-papers-claims 29 comments worldnews
- Microsoft, Apple, Google, Tesla, Dell hit with lawsuit over alleged children cobalt mining in Congo https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/tech/apple-microsoft-tesla-dell-congo-cobalt-mining/index.html 3 comments worldevents
- A friend of mine is building an electronic board that helps children to learn programming in real life without any soldering. This is his Indiegogo Campaing. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/firstmakers-kids-technology#/ 5 comments programming
- Children as young as 7 are mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for smart phones and other products of major electronic brands https://www.today.ng/news/world/68278/congolese-children-mine-cobalt-for-smartphones-amnesty-intl 7 comments worldnews
- “At least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials” The author, Nicolas Pelham, explains that Hamas uses child laborers to build their terror tunnels because, “much as in Victorian coal mines, they are prized for their nimble bodies”. http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=11424&jid=1&href=fulltext 3 comments worldnews
- Unregulated mining in rural northern Nigeria is causing blindness and paralysis among children and making adults infertile. Farmers are forced to choose between poverty and a slow death by lead poisoning. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/mar/17/nigeria-gold-mining-farmers-lead-poisoning-poverty 170 comments worldnews
- Glencore, the commodity and mining firm worth £27bn, stands accused in the Democratic Republic of Congo of dumping raw acid and profiting from children working 150ft underground. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/apr/14/glencore-child-labour-acid-dumping-row 4 comments worldnews
- How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children of Nigeria: 'More than 400 children have died and thousands more have been severely poisoned by exposure to lead dust.' http://e360.yale.edu/feature/how_a_gold_mining_boom_is_killing_the_children_of_nigeria/2500/ 27 comments worldnews
- Adebayo Akinfenwa says he may play until he's 40 as he fears being unable to provide for his kids: "I was on the bike thinking 'this is killing me' but everyone has a purpose in life. Mine is pushing through the pain barrier. I am inspired by a fear of not being able to care for & feed my children." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9180537/adebayo-akinfenwa-admits-hes-considering-playing-40.html 341 comments soccer
- Trump Tweeted That He ‘Saved Pre-existing Conditions.’ Then Why Is My Daughter’s Life On The Line? “Even though the president has repeatedly promised to protect health care, families like mine are living in limbo and unclear what the future holds for their children.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-saved-preexisting-conditions-health-care_n_5e1f139ec5b63211760c0654 139 comments politics
- Africa: Tesla, Apple Among Firms Accused of Aiding Child Labor in Africa - Five of the world's largest tech companies have been accused of being complicit in the death of children in Africa forced to mine cobalt, a metal used to make telephones and computers, in a landmark lawsuit. https://allafrica.com/stories/201912170007.html 11 comments worldnews
- Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla named as defendants in US lawsuit filed on behalf of 14 parents and children from Democratic Republic of the Congo. Families say children working in mines were killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to power smartphones, laptops, and electric cars. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths 133 comments worldnews
- Children as young as five make up most of Madagascar’s mica mining workforce Investigation finds thousands of children are scavenging in deadly conditions for mineral widely used by car and electronics firms https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/nov/21/children-as-young-as-five-make-up-most-of-madagascars-mica-mining-workforce 7 comments worldnews
- Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines - Quadcopters with thermal imagery cameras can help detect vicious mini-mines that often kill or maim children https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/drones-used-to-find-toy-like-butterfly-land-mines/ 6 comments technology
- India’s nuclear industry pours its wastes into a river of death and disease. Scientists say nuclear workers, village residents, and children living near mines and factories are falling ill after persistent exposure to unsafe radiation. http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/12/14/18844/india-s-nuclear-industry-pours-its-wastes-river-death-and-disease 56 comments worldnews
- Children's rights groups urge Defense program to stop giving school cops military hardware: School police request anti-mine vehicles, M-16s, ammo, grenade launchers http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/16/15542/childrens-rights-groups-urge-defense-program-stop-giving-school-cops-military 377 comments politics
- Take mercury out of children’s hands, Governments from around the world met in Nairobi to negotiate an international treaty on mercury, one million children around the world engaged in artisanal gold mining work with it every day. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/global-pulse/take-mercury-out-children%E2%80%99s-hands 3 comments worldnews
- Congolese children toil in mines to pay their school fees: The International Labor Organization (ILO) says there are some 200 million child laborers worldwide. The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to many underage miners. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15146577,00.html 35 comments worldnews
- Everyday around the world innocent people, many of them children, are killed or injured by millions of unexploded land mines and cluster bombs. The State Department and the Pentagon stall and say year after year they are reviewing U.S. landmine policy. Years pass. Still no decision. http://counterpunch.org/nader05162011.html 173 comments worldnews
- In northeast India coal towns, many miners are children: Thousands of underage workers as young as 8 leave school to work in coal mines under perilous conditions. India officially upholds mining safety standards & forbids child labor, but loopholes in laws allow widespread abuses. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-child-coal-20110515,0,7273380,full.story 4 comments worldnews
- Child labour is illegal in Bolivia, but almost 320,000 of the country's children and adolescents in extreme conditions, in the mines, Brazil nut plantations and sugar cane field, earning less than $5 a day http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8285751.stm 6 comments worldnews