Action in July

The July page of the 2022 ACRATH Calendar alerts us to the fact that products we use are tainted by slavery. If you use cosmetics or drive cars that have a sparkle in the paint job, the chances are that the sparkle came from the mineral, mica. Mining mica is dangerous for adults and can…

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Debt Bondage in Mica Mining

It is highly likely that you own products that include mica as an ingredient. It is the mineral that makes our cosmetics, cars and phones sparkle. However workers mining mica are struggling to survive. Jharkhand state, India, is one of the world’s largest mica producers with an economy in which thousands of families are dependent…

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