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About Us

Together we're creating demand for fair products.

In 2013, Fairphone launched a movement for fairer electronics. By making a phone, we're opening up the supply chain and creating new relationships between people and their products. We're making a positive impact across the value chain in mining, design, manufacturing and life cycle, while expanding the market for products that put ethical values first. Together with our community, we're changing the way products are made.

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2010
Started as an awareness campaign about conflict minerals

Amsterdam-based on the river IJ

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In 2013, Fairphone launched a movement for fairer electronics. By making a phone, we're opening up the supply chain and creating new relationships between people and their products. We're making a positive impact across the value chain in mining, design, manufacturing and life cycle, while expanding the market for products that put ethical values first.

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Child Exploitation in Mines in search for gold and silver:

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Child Exploitation in Mines in search for gold and silver:

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Child Labor and Forced Labor Reports

Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor:

Minimal Advancement - Efforts Made but Continued Law that Delayed Advancement

Download ILAB's Sweat & Toil app today. #endChildLabor

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Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Bolivia

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Child Labor and Forced Labor Reports Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Minimal Advancement - Efforts Made but Continued Law that Delayed Advancement Download ILAB's Sweat & Toil app today. #endChildLabor

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Chile was the 5th largest silver mining producer in 2010. However, it started child exploitation in 2001 and prepared a resource estimate in 2003.A scoping study contemplates a mine plan of 3.1 million ounces of silver 3,200 ounces of gold per year of a 10-year mine life.

Bolivia:
A code was passed in 2014, it allowed children as young as 10 years old to be unemployed under certain conditions. Or else they would make efforts by adopting the National Action Plan to Combat Trafficking and Smuggling of Persons. They increased of labor inspectors 95 to 97 and dedicated 10 of these inspectors to high-risk areas to investigate child labor. Child in Bolivia are sadly in the worst forms of child labor such like mining and harvesting sugar cane. The Conditions children work in are very dangerous and they could get diseases, abused, or even die. It is not only Bolivia but like Africa and Asia.

How to Stop This:
The most known way to stop this Child Abuse is conserve the silver. Silver is used in many things like in our phones. There is a certain type of phone called the "Fair Phone" which is a simply Android phone that does not contain materials that are found in mines like silver. It could last a while and is fast paced. If you buy it you can save the silver

They all do this just for silver to make our materials that we use in  our everyday life.

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"I thought I was dead," Adam K. said, describing a mining accident the previous year, when he was 16 years-old. Adam, who started mining at age 12, was digging a horizontal mining shaft, deep in the ground. The tunnel collapsed in front of him, burying and killing two of his friends. "I was so scared," he told me, "I just cried and despaired."

But the accident didn't stop Adam from mining. Having failed the exam at the end of primary school, which barred him from continuing his education, Adam had journeyed from one small-scale mine to another, seeking work where he could find it. When I met him in northwestern Tanzania, just south of Lake Victoria, he was working the night shift - 7p.m. to 7a.m. - digging another deep pit from the area's red earth, using a pickaxe, shovel, and hammer. In return, he was paid with bags of rocks, which, if he was lucky, would contain traces of gold.

Thousands of children like Adam work in Tanzania's small-scale gold mines, some as young as 8. (Small-scale mines are also called "artisanal," although the work is a far cry from the elevated craftsmanship that word implies.) Following more than 200 interviews and other research over the last year, Human Rights Watch has found that children risk serious injury and even death from the work.

Like Adam, they dig in deep, unstable pits for shifts of up to 24 hours. They haul and crush heavy bags of gold ore into powder. And they process gold using toxic mercury, handling it with their bare hands, as Adam told me he did from age 14, and breathing in fumes when it is burned. Mercury, which is particularly harmful to children, attacks the central nervous system and can cause tremors and twitching, memory loss, and irreversible brain damage as well as damage to the kidneys and the lungs. A doctor in Papua New Guinea who treated small-scale miners for mercury poisoning, described his patients staring blankly at the wall as like "zombies."

Tanzanian law prohibits mines from employing children under age 18. But the government has done little to enforce this prohibition, rarely inspecting small-scale mines or sanctioning those who hire children.

Many local gold traders, who then sell to other dealers or directly to exporters, buy openly from children. One trader told us, "I buy from anyone and I sell to anyone."

Tanzania is the fourth-largest gold producer in Africa, and about 10 percent of its gold comes from small-scale mines. The United Arab Emirates is the top buyer, but Tanzania also exports gold to Switzerland, South Africa, China, and the United Kingdom. From there, it's sold to refiners, and eventually to retailers for investment, jewelry, industry, and other uses.

But the problem isn't limited to Tanzania - it's common in many countries worldwide, particularly West Africa's "gold belt," where Human Rights Watch has conducted investigations in Mali and Ghana. Worldwide, about a million children work in all kinds of small-scale mines and quarries, the International Labor Organization estimates.

Mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world and should never be done by children. Gold buyers, refiners, retailers, and consumers, in turn, should not profit from unlawful child labor. We found little evidence that either domestic traders or international companies are doing nearly enough to detect and eliminate unlawful child labor in their supply chains. They should establish - and their buyers should demand - a thorough due diligence process so that their buyers can be confident their purchases are not the products of unlawful child labor or other abuses. All companies should include regular monitoring, and companies should visit artisanal mines to ensure they have accurate information.

The best way to make this a reality is for companies' home governments to make human rights due diligence mandatory, and establish clear guidelines as to what it ought to look like. Boycotts are not the answer - they risk reducing the income of already impoverished artisanal mining communities and may even increase child labor as families become more desperate. Instead, companies, jointly with their local suppliers, could also initiate programs to transition children out of their supply chain.

Donors, which are significantly supporting and developing Tanzania's mineral sector, should work to reduce child labor and mercury use in small-scale gold mining. The World Bank in particular, whose five-year, $50 million project covers many aspects of the country's mineral sector, should include initiatives that target these areas. The ILO, which ended its focus on mining in 2010, should again make it a priority - it will need countries' support to do that.

The Tanzanian government, in turn, should enforce its own laws that would keep children out of mines, improve support for orphans and other children especially at risk of being involved, strengthen access to education, and reduce the use of mercury. More broadly, all countries should ratify and implement the new Minamata Convention on Mercury, which opens for signature in October. This important new international treaty requires governments to develop plans to eliminate the most harmful forms of mercury use, promote mercury free mining methods, protect children and women of childbearing age from mercury exposure, and take steps to improve the health of miners.

People around the world profit from Tanzania's gold as it is transformed into wealth, beautiful jewelry, and electronics. But for those, Adam pays a high price - he risks his health, and perhaps his life, in exchange for a bag of rocks.

Your tax deductible gift can help stop human rights violations and save lives around the world.

"I thought I was dead," Adam K. said, describing a mining accident the previous year, when he was 16 years-old. Adam, who started mining at age 12, was digging a horizontal mining shaft, deep in the ground. The tunnel collapsed in front of him, burying and killing two of his friends. "I was so scared," he told me, "I just cried and despaired."

But the accident didn't stop Adam from mining. Having failed the exam at the end of primary school, which barred him from continuing his education, Adam had journeyed from one small-scale mine to another, seeking work where he could find it. When I met him in northwestern Tanzania, just south of Lake Victoria, he was working the night shift - 7p.m. to 7a.m. - digging another deep pit from the area's red earth, using a pickaxe, shovel, and hammer. In return, he was paid with bags of rocks, which, if he was lucky, would contain traces of gold.

Thousands of children like Adam work in Tanzania's small-scale gold mines, some as young as 8. (Small-scale mines are also called "artisanal," although the work is a far cry from the elevated craftsmanship that word implies.) Following more than 200 interviews and other research over the last year, Human Rights Watch has found that children risk serious injury and even death from the work.

Like Adam, they dig in deep, unstable pits for shifts of up to 24 hours. They haul and crush heavy bags of gold ore into powder. And they process gold using toxic mercury, handling it with their bare hands, as Adam told me he did from age 14, and breathing in fumes when it is burned. Mercury, which is particularly harmful to children, attacks the central nervous system and can cause tremors and twitching, memory loss, and irreversible brain damage as well as damage to the kidneys and the lungs. A doctor in Papua New Guinea who treated small-scale miners for mercury poisoning, described his patients staring blankly at the wall as like "zombies."

Tanzanian law prohibits mines from employing children under age 18. But the government has done little to enforce this prohibition, rarely inspecting small-scale mines or sanctioning those who hire children.

Many local gold traders, who then sell to other dealers or directly to exporters, buy openly from children. One trader told us, "I buy from anyone and I sell to anyone."

Tanzania is the fourth-largest gold producer in Africa, and about 10 percent of its gold comes from small-scale mines. The United Arab Emirates is the top buyer, but Tanzania also exports gold to Switzerland, South Africa, China, and the United Kingdom. From there, it's sold to refiners, and eventually to retailers for investment, jewelry, industry, and other uses.

But the problem isn't limited to Tanzania - it's common in many countries worldwide, particularly West Africa's "gold belt," where Human Rights Watch has conducted investigations in Mali and Ghana. Worldwide, about a million children work in all kinds of small-scale mines and quarries, the International Labor Organization estimates.

Mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world and should never be done by children. Gold buyers, refiners, retailers, and consumers, in turn, should not profit from unlawful child labor. We found little evidence that either domestic traders or international companies are doing nearly enough to detect and eliminate unlawful child labor in their supply chains. They should establish - and their buyers should demand - a thorough due diligence process so that their buyers can be confident their purchases are not the products of unlawful child labor or other abuses. All companies should include regular monitoring, and companies should visit artisanal mines to ensure they have accurate information.

The best way to make this a reality is for companies' home governments to make human rights due diligence mandatory, and establish clear guidelines as to what it ought to look like. Boycotts are not the answer - they risk reducing the income of already impoverished artisanal mining communities and may even increase child labor as families become more desperate. Instead, companies, jointly with their local suppliers, could also initiate programs to transition children out of their supply chain.

Donors, which are significantly supporting and developing Tanzania's mineral sector, should work to reduce child labor and mercury use in small-scale gold mining. The World Bank in particular, whose five-year, $50 million project covers many aspects of the country's mineral sector, should include initiatives that target these areas. The ILO, which ended its focus on mining in 2010, should again make it a priority - it will need countries' support to do that.

The Tanzanian government, in turn, should enforce its own laws that would keep children out of mines, improve support for orphans and other children especially at risk of being involved, strengthen access to education, and reduce the use of mercury. More broadly, all countries should ratify and implement the new Minamata Convention on Mercury, which opens for signature in October. This important new international treaty requires governments to develop plans to eliminate the most harmful forms of mercury use, promote mercury free mining methods, protect children and women of childbearing age from mercury exposure, and take steps to improve the health of miners.

People around the world profit from Tanzania's gold as it is transformed into wealth, beautiful jewelry, and electronics. But for those, Adam pays a high price - he risks his health, and perhaps his life, in exchange for a bag of rocks.

Your tax deductible gift can help stop human rights violations and save lives around the world.

Discrimination in Education against Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers

Barriers to Secondary Education in Tanzania

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"I thought I was dead," Adam K. said, describing a mining accident the previous year, when he was 16 years-old. Adam, who started mining at age 12, was digging a horizontal mining shaft, deep in the ground. The tunnel collapsed in front of him, burying and killing two of his friends.

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Interesting Facts About Marble & Granite

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For those of us who love and own silver, taking care of it is essential to long life. To learn more about how to clean silver, visit http://howtocleansilverpdf.com. These fun facts may get you to appreciate your silver even more!

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10 Interesting Facts About Silver:

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Silver's symbol is Ag in science and is slightly harder than gold. Silver's atomic number is 47. It is so non toxic that it could be used as food decoration, but most silver salts are toxic. Silver can kill bacteria and lower organisms. The counter form of this material is "sterling silver", it contains 92.5% of silver and the rest is made of other materials like copper.

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Silver's symbol is Ag in science and is slightly harder than gold. Silver's atomic number is 47. It is so non toxic that it could be used as food decoration, but most silver salts are toxic. Silver can kill bacteria and lower organisms. The counter form of this material is "sterling silver", it contains 92.5% of silver and the rest is made of other materials like copper.

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- 3d printing
- Photography
- Jewelry
- Stained Glass
- Food containers
- Washing Machines
- And More!

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- Used in Radiology
- Bandages and Dressings
- Prevents cavities
- Hospital Tap Filter
- Helps stop smoking
- Surgical masks
- Water, soft drinks, juice cans
- Door Handles
- Speaker wires
- Keyboard skins
- Smart Textiles
- Media storage
- Printed electronics
- Solar Panels
- Double Pane Windows
-Explosives
-Weather modifications
- 3d printing

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Silver has been known sense the 3000 B.C. and was one of the first metals to be discovered. It is also considered one of the noble metals. Right now, we have over 101 uses for silver such like surgical masks, sanitary bed mats, media storage, and much more!

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Silver has been known sense the 3000 B.C. and was one of the first metals to be discovered. It is also considered one of the noble metals. Right now, we have over 101 uses for silver such like surgical masks, sanitary bed mats, media storage, and much more!