Desktop Research | Gender Mainstreaming in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM)

Mercury poisoning is a serious threat to human health, as evidenced by the Minamata Tragedy of the 1950s. Consumption of mercury-tainted seafood resulted in the emergence of a variety of mysterious neurological diseases, even death, among residents of Minamata Bay in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. People suffering from the disease complain of numbness in the hands …

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