The Future Policy Award, 2023 has taken a closer look at policies for a pollution-free world, regulating the use of hazardous chemicals in products, with a focus on children and their environment and awarded with WORLD FUTURE POLICY AWARD, 2023 to Nepal’s Mercury Free Health Care Services and Mercury Free Dentistry Policy.
Around 15 million people across the globe are working at artisanal and small-scale gold mining sites, nearly a third of them women and children. Instead of operating advanced equipment supplied by formal mining companies subject to government oversight, they use basic tools, bulldozers and unregulated chemicals. In many cases, miners vaporize mercury to separate gold […]
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The young men brace for the first shock of cold water as they enter the river, easing their way into another day of illegal gold mining. By Linda Mujuru, Global Press Journal Zimbabwe David Mauta and Wisdom Nyakurima, both 18, stand knee-deep in the Odzi River near the eastern Zimbabwe mining city of Mutare and…