The grind and grief behind the glitter

The grind and grief behind the glitter

 

How the so called Developed Countries are accomplices to horrible crimes of abuse and exploitation of Children in India and other countries.

That child labour is used to mine mica in India is known. The commissioner with the Indian government's National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, Yogesh Dube, recently visited Jharkhand and said: ''Child labour and trafficking are major issues in Jharkhand and it is high time that people understood.''
Two decades ago, in the face of environmental concerns and in an effort to regulate the mica industry, the government shut mines across the state, but the closures simply drove child labour further, literally and metaphorically, underground.
The organisation of the industry is intentionally opaque, said Kailash Satyarthi, founder of child rights organisation BBA. Those who work at the mine face are unaware of where their product ends up, and those who buy the mica are wilfully blind about where it comes from.

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