Oscar Timmers
Beauty and a Beast: take the child labour out of your cosmetics
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At least twenty thousand children work in mica mines in the region Jharkhand/Bihar, India. They work long hours in dangerous conditions. Mica is used in cosmetics, car paints, and many other products. On 22 May 2016, Terre des Hommes launched a child labour campaign and petition based on extensive research by SOMO.
Irene Schipper (Senior researcher at SOMO): ”This is a good example of our supply chain research, which identifies a severe human rights violation (child labour) deep in the supply chain and connects it to well-known end-users. Other actors in the mica supply chain – such as exporting and importing middlemen – are also identified”.
- Read more about this campaign by Terre des Hommes(opens in new window)
- Sign the petition here(opens in new window)
- Read the full report
- Read the reaction of Mariette Hamer (SER)(opens in new window) – Dutch only
- Read the visual story (including a video and a 360 degree interview) from the German newspaper Der Spiegel(opens in new window)
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Irene Schipper
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