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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 ...
There have been warnings about child labor before --Amnesty International highlighted the problemin 2016 andGlencore(GLNCY), a leading cobalt producer, said last month that some small mines in the DRC are using children. Related: Inside the dirty trade fueling our clean energy future The probl...
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.
China, meanwhile, owns some of the largest cobalt mines in Congo and is the largest processor of the metal. There are no cobalt processing plants in the United States.
The lawsuit names Apple, Alphabet (Google), Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla as Defendants. Plaintiffs have evidence that these companies in particular aided and abetted the mines that abused and profited from forcing Plaintiffs and other children to...
Mostly importantly Microsoft and Tesla, who use cobalt, a substance dangerously mined by children (Sanderson). All these companies have profited through products of child labor because they are cheap. In fact, the National Labor Committee states that a Microsoft supplier paid child workers “$....
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...
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rifeBegin By Nima Elbagir, Dominique van Heerden, and Eliza Mackintosh Christian has been working with a group of men for the last 24 hours, mining for cobalt in shifts. ...
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 ...