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 ...
“Clean energy is a central pillar of the Biden-Harris Administration’s policy goals. Yet, that clean energy future cannot — and will not — be built on the backs of forced laborers,” the Labor Department said in its report. The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies more than 70 percent...
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...
The International Labor Organization(ILO)http://www.ilo.org for example promotes jobs and protects victims of child labor in the entire world in countries with extremely high child labourers: Eritrea, Somalia, DR Congo, Myanmar, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Zimbabwe etc.http://www.cnn.com ...
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...
too, to the fact that deformities of the pelvis and consequent difficult, even fatal, child-bearing arise from the work of the women in the mines." As they took the pain of not being able to have a child of their own, so did theAfricanwomen and men, just in a different way. They...
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 ...
Over the past 50 years, the ILO’s conventions and policies on child labor have become increasingly stringent, “building on one 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 non-profit Enough Project would later praise the iPhone producer, writing in a November report that Apple "has committed substantial resources to developing processes for sourcing minerals from mines that benefit Congolese communities."Amnesty Int...
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife Begin