{"id":14690,"date":"2020-02-19T19:20:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/19\/coal-workers-are-orphans-the-children-and-slaves-mining-pakistans-coal"},"modified":"2020-02-19T19:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:20:27","slug":"coal-workers-are-orphans-the-children-and-slaves-mining-pakistans-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14690","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Coal workers are orphans&#8217;: the children and slaves mining Pakistan&#8217;s coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injuries and fatalities are common among thousands of debt-bonded men and children toiling in one of the world\u2019s harshest work environments<\/p>\n<p><em>All photographs by Mashal Baloch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The spectre of death hovers over the coal mines of Balochistan. Under scorching skies, this turbulent south-west region of Pakistan is home to one of the world\u2019s harshest work environments, where tens of thousands of men and children descend below the surface each day to dig up thousands of tonnes of coal.<\/p>\n<p>The threats of underground explosions, methane gas poisoning, suffocation, or mine walls collapsing are omnipresent and there is barely a single worker across the state\u2019s five massive commercial coal mines who has not been touched by the fatalities that are common here.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/19\/coal-workers-are-orphans-the-children-and-slaves-mining-pakistans-coal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injuries and fatalities are common among thousands of debt-bonded men and children toiling in one of the world\u2019s harshest work environmentsAll photographs by Mashal BalochThe spectre of death hovers over the coal mines of Balochistan. Under scorching s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[574,59,62,730,713,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-labour","category-global-development","category-india","category-mining","category-slavery","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14691,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14690\/revisions\/14691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}