An Amnesty International investigation claims child labor is being used to acquire cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a mineral used in the production of lithium-ion batteries purchased by tech companies like Apple. The report, published on Monday by Amnesty and DPR non-profi...
In clear language, the filing condemns the use of child labor, and says that since they don't own any cobalt mines, a supplier such as Glencore as named in the suit can't be positively identified as the source of cobalt that they use. Cobalt is a primary ingredient in bat...
Families of children killed or injured while mining for cobalt in the Congo havefiled a lawsuitagainst the world’s largest tech companies, including Google and Apple, according to court documents. Advocates have been lobbying to add cobalt to a “conflict minerals list” that currently includes t...
Collingsworth was in DRC to investigate the subject of child labor around the cobalt mines there. Cobalt is a key component of thelithium-ion battery, which is used in our smartphones,computers, and even in certainelectric cars— all items that are nearly inextricable from the way we live ou...
Through the critical lenses of "modern slavery," "dispossession," and "gendering," this study examines the contours of power, patriarchy, and child labor in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). There, a veritable mining boom ...
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife