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 Indonesia
Key problems related to extractive industries
Initiatives
and the children’s rights
• Children's Health in Mercury-  Increase health workers and teacher’s
polluted Environment in Sekotong, capacity building to protect the children from
West Lombok District (40,000 mercury as chemical exposures, by
population) and to some Artisanal approaching three levels: local level, city
small-scale gold mining (ASGM) level and national level.
hotspots sub-district in Taliwang,
Lemunga, Brang Rea areas, West
Sumbawa (50,000 populations).

• Nearly 75% of the population is

involved in activities related to gold
mining and processing but majority
done by non-local residents.

• The biggest challenge of the project is

the mercury contamination on the
waste and air
 Thailand
Key problems related to extractive industries Risks to the safety of the children, youth and
and the children’s rights adult environmental and HRD

• Lower Klity Creek Village “Lead contamination” in • Often young people’s facing the power of
Kanchanaburi Thailand government or companies’ stakeholder, situation
in development project area is dangerous and
• The village of Klity, 68 miles west of Bangkok, is a Karen lots of risk but they still tried finding the solution
indigenous community which has long suffered from for work with children and youth and community
poisoning related to lead sediments and contamination in members
the creek near the village. A lead mine operates and
discharges waste directly into this creek, from which the
villagers collect their drinking water. Each of the village’s
221 inhabitants suffers from lead poisoning.
• A lead-processing factory run by Lead Concentrate
(Thailand) Co Ltd was constructed 11 kilometers upstream
of Lower Klity Creek. It began operating in the mid-1960s,
but was ordered to shut down in 1998. However, its toxic
legacy remained and has kept haunting the village.
Residents suffered the symptoms of chronic lead
poisoning, such as abdominal pain, fatigue, headaches,
and mood changes.
 Philippines
General Profile
 Philippines
Key problems related to extractive Risks to the safety of the Initiatives
industries and the children’s rights children, youth and adult
environmental and HRD
• Water contamination of toxic
chemicals and heavy metals • Red Tagging of organizations and
individuals
• Decreasing fish catch in rivers and • Threats to security
Marsh
• SLAPP Cases
• Increasing number of cases of • Persecutions/Killings
Physical and mental defects
especially children

• Destruction of biodiversity,
watershed and forest cover

• Displacement of Indigenous People

• Continues Disaster Risks

• Proliferation of anti-social activities

Thank You!