The lawsuit, which also named Dell, Microsoft and Tesla as defendants, was filed in Washington, DC, by human rights group International Rights Advocates. Fourteen families have accused the tech firms of aiding and abetting forced labor practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ac...
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...
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 ...
On Wednesday afternoon, in a joint filing, the tech giants filed to have the suit dismissed. 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 posit...
and women’s participation in politics and in the labor force at that time has shown great advances compared to the previous decade. With regard to health indicators, the child mortality rate was successfully reduced by half. Despite these successes, inequities between regions are persistent [22,...
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife
Read: Child labor rife in Congo’s cobalt mines In India, the 100 Million campaign launched acaravantraveling through 5,000 villages across the country campaigning against child trafficking. Satyarthi said he couldn’t necessarily put a timeline on how to keep curbing child labor down to zero, ...
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