Child Labor Diamond Mining In Africa. Child labor in the mines of the DRC is a terrible reality that must be exposed. Blood diamonds dug from African mines by children as young as 11 gold taken from 25m underwater by kids aged 9.
A recent PBS report stated that there are almost one million children currently working in the gold mines in Africa. According to the US. USAID launched the Kono Peace Diamond Alliance in 2002 to try to improve the working conditions in the mines particularly for children.
Liberia prohibits forced labor.
Young women and children were often subjected to forced labor at alluvial diamond and gold mines and on rubber plantations. Department of States 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report diamonds are produced with forced or forced child labor in Angola Central African Republic the Democratic Republic of the Congo Guinea Liberia and Sierra Leone. Africa Mining for precious metals and rocks such as gold and diamonds top the list of the industries most likely to employ child labor in Africa. In spite of various regulations governing mining as announced by the Congolese government and the 2009 law on child protections prohibiting the economic exploitation of children no concrete or effective measures or policies have been made by the State to eradicate this problem.
