Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Recently, a report released by Human Rights Watch detailed the operation of compression mines in the Philippines. Miners, sometimes as young as 8 or 9 years old, breathe through a flimsy plastic tube and then are lowered into confined, dark holes over 20 meters deep in search of gold. Juliane Kippenberg, Associate Director of Human Rights Watch’s Children’s Rights Division shares her research and stories.

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