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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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....