Two-thirds of the world’s cobalt comes from Congo, which has been mired in conflict for decades, and about a fifth of that is mined by hand.But with children often working alongside adults in artisanal mines it poses an ethical dilemma for multinationals....
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 ...
“ Worldwide, there are an estimated 246 million children engaged in child labour. Some 180 million children aged 5–17 (or 73 percent of all child labourers) are believed to be engaged in the worst forms of child labour, including working in hazardous conditions such as in mines and with...
These moves have been well-received in donor and policymaking circles, where the growing consensus is that child labor in the ASM sector can be controlled and must be eradicated. Proponents believe that because “the estimated size of the child labour population in mining and quarrying of 1 ...
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.
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...
Child soldiers perform a range of tasks including participation in combat, laying mines and explosives; scouting, spying, acting as decoys, couriers or guards; training, drill or other preparations; logistics and support functions, por- tering, cooking and domestic labour; and sexual slavery or ...
forced labour;child labour;domestic workers;India;datasets;exploitation;minimum wage 1. Introduction Using India’s Periodic Labour Force Survey, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates the number of domestic workers in India as 4.764 million [1]. Globally, the ILO estimates that there ...