for almost all of the classes from carl's a good start this is where. the 77 percent. this weekend on d. w. . we are in john kept northern india it's one of the poorest regions in the country deep within these rocky crevices around 20 men and women are foraging through the rubble looking for the shimmering mineral mica there are thousands of mines like this in john kept yet they are not run by big corporations all of the miners work for themselves. between 10200 rupees depending on the

prize. i have to sell a whole basketful like this one here 2 on the equivalent of one euro $0.25 for these women work 8 hours a day under the blazing sun what else can i do good i'd rather work on the line than die of starvation but now. the hills of this desert like landscape are full of the mineral mind. you have to do is bend down and pick it up in early strips unknown to most people the roma to really is used in a multitude of everyday products. in automotive paints for example. or as an insulating material for electronic components. mostly though it is used in the cosmetics industry. crushed into a powder mica is. and in almost every time of cosmetic. mind you're here

michael they're. everywhere but who pays the price for our glittery cosmetics why. don in the valley children are gathering my girls aged between 6 and 9 when. it's. that good at home the result of the afterthought but even the. most clued up for not getting. uploaded or that their genitals the if. they were of the. they were just to get in and out of the. face of someone.

else also. to find out more about the importance of my career in the beauty industry we had to because medical training fat and brown and there are no stands for the likes of shut down do your l'oreal here the big brands don't make their own products they are outsourced to retaliate manufacturers. miter is an essential ingredient in make up such as my scar a long shot lipstick and foundation. so i want to use mica make i am i my kit is a shimmery material which puts the glittering pout isn't chremes is half what it.

effect it produces the shimmering glowing effect on the skin me it's in foundation in lipstick my clothes in everything. it's a cane gradient yes and cosmetics especially in the decorative department i'd say it's one of the most important. manufacturers now plan c. and the formulas of their product. but do they know where their roll materials are sourced. that's why this yes. we'd need to scrutinize the documents every time. in principle we'd have to ask our suppliers how. the industry is aware of the issue of child labor and is trying to tackle it. many firms rely on the information given by suppliers. and they give every roll material has its own

documentation if this is delivered along with the order of the material for example with mica. it's documented in the computer so we know exactly which product has been manufactured from which batch of raw material. you can trace it back to the mine right exactly but does this really work. micah can be found all over the world. the us brazil canada and south korea are among the largest countries to extract it. however china and india are way ahead 30 percent of all might are imported into your of the commons from india. officially indian mica production comes from register in practice almost 90 percent of the my german mined in india is from the states of jharkhand and be hard. mining and extraction are illegal that. in the ninety's the state declared these miles of wild fowl is

a nature reserve in order to protect them the old fart is back and all my going mining. however are drone footage shows a different picture. countless craters are testimony to the extent of mining in the region it is mostly local. even in areas that are very difficult to access. some of the mica miners use dynamite to get into the mountainside. others dig on the surface using rudimentary tools we try to establish contact with them we want to understand how they have been mining miner illegally for over 40 years in spite of the band. it was not easy to spot them in this rough terrain. after searching

for several days we finally came across a family. on a hill is 25 years old he comes with his wife and children to collect micah every day. and micah is our only option we all come here to work that we can make about 302400 rupees so we can buy rice and feed ourselves. so. what do you want for your children. i want them to be able to study to do something with their lives i want them to have a good job. average daily wages between 3 euros 80 and 5 euros he hasn't always been a micro gatherer just 2 years ago he was working as a farmer lives in this village of 60 inhabitants at the foot of the mines there is

no running water no electricity here despite the brand new elektra city mass the families livelihood used to be farming but drought and climate change have now made most of the land barren. i eat food as if this is my land here all of this. can you still farm on this land larry is. there's no rain the nothing can grow it's to drive. the. extraction of mica has become an indispensable source of income for more than 90 percent of john cans population. the miners are willing to take huge risks to get hold of the mineral they have to dig deeper and deeper into the mountain to find it. sounds coming from a mind narrow well catch our attention. and

though. they are don't worry we're not police ok no problem in. our world what is your name baron saying how do you manage to work down there. richard. when you're hungry you aren't afraid to go down it's true that it's dangerous work but what else can you do we have to eat i don't have much choice i don't have much education and i don't get any state support. can and is 35 years old and has 2 children he agrees to let us follow him into the tunnel he has built. every month around a dozen miners from the region die in these dangerous underground quarries. almost

15 meters underground the air is very stuffy it's around $45.00 degrees and there is nothing shoring up the tunnels which could collapse at any minute. canon and his friend ravi spend around 8 hours a day here in the darkness an ordeal that earns them around $300.00 rupees a day the equivalent of 3 year olds $0.80 feeding into. i've worked here for 4 months a lot of people worked here in the past even our grandfathers were digging here 40 or 50 years ago are you aware that people die due to these mines collapsing. i'm scared for my life like anyone would be but what else can i do there aren't too

many accidents here if god so chooses it will happen but for now they haven't been any disasters here. where there were a guess at the back alley knew my ears. doesn't it worry you that what you're doing is illegal. the police came around 4 or 5 months ago they told us that it's illegal and that we should stop they even tried to scare us a few times but how are we going to feed ourselves if we don't come here. the 2 miners live in 23 a town with a population of around 4000 people surrounded by my charisma. mica mining is the main source of income here 3 years ago the town was struck by

a mining disaster. i needed a v last time husband in the accident she has 4 children. must sit down and eat out. anita is a literate like most of the villagers and joc out. i don't know how old my parents don't remember. anything and you tell us about your husband. michael. my husband left to work in the mines he went deep underground and most buried in a landslide. there others die with yes 3 others. since her husband died anita is the sole provider for

her family every day she walks 2 kilometers along a stony path under the hot sun to the summit of this mountain when her children don't have to go to school they go with the youngest is just 4 years old. the children help me by gathering the rocks. we break them up and then collect all the little stones. i don't know and that not because there are only little stones here. it means that they know that. it's all going to. show it to me right away or ugh across. this is my daily ordeal working in the heat i can deal with my children can't i won't let them starve i have to work because i don't have any land to farm. off to

3 grueling hours anita and her children have collected enough mica to feed themselves for a day. many highly profitable businesses rely on these people slogging away. at the end of each day the valley villagers take what they've gathered to connection points where the mica is sold by weight. put it down here small traders are at the bottom of the supply chain they supply my cancer local wholesalers. locos directors to the wholesalers who buy their goods.

there on several dozen collection points in the town center. is the only game in town. at france the wholesalers refuse to talk to us but eventually one of them agrees to questions. where does the mica come from it comes from the minds. to the small traders bring it to you. yes. the wholesaler openly admits that the mica is sourced from illegal mines but as soon as we start to talk about child labor he starts to hedge . would like to ask you about children working in the mines. there aren't any children working in the mines. that's false information.

that the children bring food to their parents when they're working in the media take photos of it. i love it i don't know who. would make. the so children don't work there no. more you explore michael yourself. we sell it to the exporters then it goes to mumbai china germany and so on. who buys it in germany. so he says the german corporate group america is one of the main buyers of the might have produced in the region.

is one of the largest corporations in europe with an annual turnover of around 15000000000 euros. pharmaceuticals giant is also a leading producer of cosmetics and chemical products and one of the key suppliers of raw materials to the cosmetics industry. its subsidiaries collar owner and jim are on supplying to major brands such as l'oreal chanel and grillo. we are committed to labor standards human rights environmental protection and are opposed to every type of corruption. max code of conduct contains a commitment to 0 tolerance of child labor it says comprehensive annual audit see include the control of relevant documentation workers ages working hours and wages

as well as compliance with environmental safety and health standards by means of boards we strictly monitor the compliant behavior of our partners but does it really work we had 4 kodama in the north of jharkhand this town with a population of 25000 is the heart of the mica industry this is where most of the export business is and processing plants are based. on 25 years old is one of the towns exporters when we introduce ourselves as journalists he agrees to show us his warehouses and to talk about child labor. going for some material the material should always be ready here next to the machine. around 50 people work in the company after the crystals are sorted ground down and filtered they are

cleaned one last time. through my help let these valuable mica flakes are exported to europe for around 500 euros. the young entrepreneur tells us there's a good reason his mica isn't sourced from. mines that use child labor but from roger stan the extraction is legal and controlled by both orators. this is a lot 1 of what i just thought that. myself a day in the lido that. i legally buy there. just as

a reminder around 90 percent of the indian production is not from rochester but from john can't and be hard. our research also finds a database recording all mica exports from the port in kolkata. we see that several containers a week go to machen germany. supplied by 2 export is based in kodama ram do modi and the cheesier and cab. hosts ala and kodama who sources mica from illegal mines himself mentioned these 2 export businesses. you export to. know are some bikers of the exporters. to random ot to yes of course and to pitch easier cheesier

yes i supply them to the responsible for the export. we manage to find the 2 suppliers on the outskirts of the town they are located next to one another. as soon as we arrive at the cheesier the workers in needed nice carry off only one man who seems to be in charge treats us. most natives. yes brenda it's very early but if posing as potential buyers we try to find out more about his suppliers and clients about the nanny suspicious to be. able. to push your father yes yes yes we're not getting anywhere here.

at random ody we're greeted by a foreman on the other end of the telephone his boss tells us that he won't meters . as we're leaving the premises we spot a number factory building a few meters away time the boss is there and welcomes us with open arms we are still posing as potential buyers he says he has been working with ram to modi and pitchy easier for years supplying them with my car for export or that the fact they've been doing that for a long time they're mica mostly goes to american germany. and. the man is happy to explain to us how the trade with foreign buyers works do the firms have export licenses. yes they've got an export license. they don't have any mining operations but they have to in

the relevant documents but they. their goods are from here it's not legal at all. you can get the necessary permits from russia start because there's mica there. exporters use licenses from there. since there michael comes from illegal mines in jharkhand the export is have to get around the system to legalize their goods they buy the new. sorry certificates in rogers dom which they used to expose the illegally mined micah to europe. man introduces us to his popular. thank you from the west bank for. him film says that businesses can obtain a document certifying they are observing the ban on child labor.

so if the buyer wants him certificate how do you do it. we can get one without business name for us it's no problem at all to get the papers. that's possible. yes we take care of everything but if you want one of these papers it will cost you a lot the administrative process is expensive. how much does it cost. between 2 and 2.5 rupees pokey. so no matter where the micro comes from it's a simple matter to obtain papers certifying that it hasn't been produced by child labor this is what the certificates look like this copy comes from the indian office of an international certification company it certifies that the micro was produced in compliance with laws to prevent child labor according to this indian export or some so difficult seraph solutrean mandatory for international groups

like now. we have a saying here to people who don't own kells automatically get no milk in the same way you can ask why shouldn't you get a certificate even when you don't fulfill the requirements yourself that's the way the world works. of course large corporations like america conduct their own inspections tanks mortars also have their tricks to get around this. american spector's come for example mr. b. asked me to take him to the mines for a visit. to get. mines where children work with. us children work there too but on the day of the inspection there was a child inside me but you know women and no children. so far they export as ram to modi and but cheesier haven't commented on the allegations. we confront

mack with the results of our research the company refuses an interview in writing they refer to bare corporate responsibility charter and explain we completely reject the use of any kind of child labor to this and we have introduced control mechanisms along the entire supply chain which we are continuously developing. should any concrete indication of irregularities arise we will of course investigate them and take appropriate measures. of the global organization responsible miter initiative is an n.g.o.s that campaigns against child labor in my car mines. they have around 50 sponsors including mac l'oreal chanel and eva share.

the french representative of the ngo agrees to meet us in her paris office. we show her the footage we filmed in the mines in india. it's all too hard hearted it's unbearable we need to act now this is why our organization was founded and why does want to eradicate child labor by 2022 funny family is aware the child labor still exists but doesn't want international companies to pull out of the region. is this is their day to day if these companies decided to stop buying my kit from india the families would lose their only income overnight. it takes a huge effort to stay there when we know all about the problem and still say.

restating that we're aware of the issue and ridge joining forces to solve it. suspected of a systemic element. but the fact is mica traders and exporters are the biggest beneficiaries of illegal mining and it's hardly in their interests to change anything in porters and producers rely on spot checks and indian certificates but jock hands people are the ones who suffer because they depend on the income from illegal mining. seen in bad light the creation of new jobs here by 2022 seems like pie in the sky. above.

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