“Defendants know and have known for a significant period of time the reality that DRC’s cobalt mining sector is dependent upon children, with males performing the most hazardous work in the primitive cobalt mines, including tunnel digging,” according to the lawsuit. Given all the publicly avai...
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...
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 ...
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.