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 ...
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife Begin
“ 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...
The non-profit groups conducted interviews with 87 current and former cobalt miners, including 17 children, from five small mines in the southern DRC last year, the report said. As cobalt is not defined as a "conflict mineral" under US standards, corporations are not obliged to publish...
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 ...
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...
of the world’s Copper. Most of the Chile’s Copper comes from open pit/strip mines. This type of mining negatively affects vegetation, topsoil, wildlife habitats, and groundwater. The next three largest producers of copper are Peru, China, and the infamous Democratic Republic of the Congo....
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 ...