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...
NEW YORK—Five US tech giants including Apple, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet have been named in a lawsuit over the death of child labourers in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Impoverished but mineral-rich DRC is the world's largest producer of the rare me...
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife
forced labour; child labour; domestic workers; India; datasets; exploitation; minimum wage1. 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...