Deep in the forest in Venezuela's Bolivar state, residents live in fear of horrific violence at the hands of armed groups involved in the illicit gold trade. Summary executions and forced child labor by armed groups is still happening today. A more transparent gold trade is crucial to disrupting the financing and ending the abuses of armed groups in places like Venezuela. Public disclosures of refiners' gold supply chains could help detect and diminish their illegal supply chains and curtail the horrific abuses that residents have been suffering for far too long. Source: Human Rights Watch