Kolwezi mining district, Lualaba province, DRC. Julie Kabish, 10 years old, artisanal miner. There is widespread international recognition that the involvement of children in mining constitutes one of the worst forms of child labour. Governments are required to prohibit and eliminate it. According to the latest Unicef estimates (2014 data), there are about 40,000 underage boys and girls working in the coltan and cobalt mines of the southern Democratic Republic of Congo.
