The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife Begin
The U.S. Department of Labor said it would add lithium-ion batteries to a list of goods made with materials known to be produced with child or forced labor under a 2006 human trafficking law. The decision was based on the fact that many batteries use cobalt, a mineral largely mined in ...
A CNN investigationhas found that child labor is still being used to mine the valuable mineral at some operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This country produces about two-thirds of the world's cobalt and is estimated to sit atop half of the globe's reserves. There have...
Child labor is being used in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to mine cobalt, a mineral used in lithium-ion batteries found in devices from Apple, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft and car manufacturers Daimler and Volkswagen, according to anew reportby Amnesty International. Children told Amnesty ...
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-profit...
IRAdvocates has filed a federal class action lawsuit today on behalf of 14 Doe Plaintiffs who are either guardians of children killed in tunnel or wall collapses while mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”) or children w...
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 ...
Child labor at small-scale gold mines in Komana West, Mali With its lengthy tradition of gold panning, Mali proved to be an ideal case study for unpacking further the debate on child labor and ASM in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a poor, landlocked country with a burgeoning subsistence rural...
where a high proportion of labour is bonded (see [50,51,52,53]), and has also mapped sites of forced labour in cobalt-mining in the DRC [54,55], fish-processing in Bangladesh [56], agriculture in Greece [57], and deforestation in Mozambique [58], among other countries and sectors....