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Child labour in illegal mines reportedly increases amid economic crisis in Afghanistan | South China Morning Post

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Struggling families in Afghanistan's Badakhshan region have reportedly been sending their children to work in illegal gold mines amid an economic crisis in the country. Footage captured on September 8, 2022 appears to show school-age workers being lowered into the shafts of an illegal gold mine, to work long hours e…

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