Here, the so-called black gold is bagged and loaded ... Sponsor Message Some children have ended up at the coal mines, working around the clock with no protection or promise for a different ...

As the Taliban government steps up its coal exports ... I've been working here most of my life. I started working in these mines when I was 9. REZVANI: The child labor that existed under the ...

The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners safe.

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Among the workers is 36-year-old Iryna Ostanko, effusive and athletic, smiling at her fellow coal workers in the cold dawn as they walk to the mine ... children." Still, he concedes, "The women ...