Child rights and mining toolkit
Best practices for addressing children’s issues in large-scale mining
Highlights
Mining often impacts vulnerable children in disadvantaged areas. UNICEF research shows both negative and positive effects, depending on the activity and proximity to communities. However, these impacts are often overlooked by the industry, except for child labor risks during construction.
Failing to take impacts on children seriously where and when they occur jeopardizes the ability for companies to secure the support of the next generation. This Toolkit addresses the knowledge and management gap and includes key actions and indicators to consider for integrating child rights into impact assessments, stakeholder engagement processes and to address salient impacts including in relation to in-migration, resettlement, safety and health, security, environment, community investment initiatives.
