This paper considers the surprising, tentative emergence of the London Metal Exchange as a quasi-labour regulator following persistent scandals over cobalt mined by child labour in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It argues that this case offers us a useful window into the limits to...
However, the question remains whether states adequately implement and comply with these child labour standards. To address this key question, this book analyses the standards of protection and enforcement of the laws against forced child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This book ...
NGOs such as Amnesty International and certain others in the field working on human rights/humanitarian relief efforts; a growing tendency toward attempting to de-legitimize to an extent the human rights claims of children who have (in violation of Article 2(e)...
The magnitude of child malnutrition including severe child malnutrition is especially high in the rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC). The aim of this qualitative study is to describe the social context of malnutrition in a rural part of the DRC and explore how some house...
Where we operate in Africa, our operations are working hard to tackle the socio-economic root causes that lead to the high prevalence of child labour. Our businesses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) support a holiday camp programme, with the aim of doing just that. Since 2016...
the International Labour Organisation, and a significant number of treaties and conventions include prohibitions on using children in conflict. Issues that arise in this analysis include the political motivations at play during the drafting of the instruments, how they are reflected in the final texts...
Last November, Save the Children revealed that up to one in five children in fragile countries, including Uganda, had dropped out of school because of rising poverty, child marriage and child labour, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic. ...
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 w
69 This is particularly evident considering Greece's response to the influx of Ukrainian refugees, who are automatically granted one year of temporary protection and access to the labour market and medical care. Greece's migration minister's statement to parliament that Ukrainians are “real ...
"Underage labour is never tolerated in our supply chain and we are proud to have led the industry in pioneering new safeguards," Apple said ina statementto theBBC. "We are currently evaluating dozens of different materials, including cobalt, in order to identify labour and environmental ...