{"id":3486,"date":"2021-05-11T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/led.digicube.dev\/what-is-behind-the-production-of-gold-in-burkina-faso\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:09:21","slug":"what-is-behind-the-production-of-gold-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/what-is-behind-the-production-of-gold-in-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"What is behind the production of gold in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Found in jewelry, watches and even computers: Gold.<\/p>\n\n<p>But where does this precious metal come from and how was it mined?<\/p>\n\n<p>The program &#8220;La fi\u00e8vre de l&#8217;or&#8221; (Gold Fever) on RTS (Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Suisse) attempts to provide answers to these questions. It provides insights into the production of gold in Burkina Faso and moves between topics such as child labor, human rights violations and the question of ethical gold. It also presents the Terre des hommes project supported by the LED. You can find the 45-minute documentary in French via the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.rts.ch\/emissions\/abe\/12084718-la-fievre-de-lor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;La fi\u00e8vre de l&#8217;or&#8221;.<\/a>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found in jewelry, watches and even computers: Gold. But where does this precious metal come from and how was it mined? The program &#8220;La fi\u00e8vre de l&#8217;or&#8221; (Gold Fever) on RTS (Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Suisse) attempts to provide answers to these questions. It provides insights into the production of gold in Burkina Faso and moves between &#8230; <a title=\"What is behind the production of gold in Burkina Faso\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/what-is-behind-the-production-of-gold-in-burkina-faso\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is behind the production of gold in Burkina Faso\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/led.li\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}