A Sky News investigation has found children as young as four working in Congolese mines where cobalt is extracted for smartphones.Why you can trust Sky News Watch Next Yemen airport hit by Israeli strikes 'I thought I was going to die' Plane crash survivors evacuated Tourists flock to...
CBS News' investigation of child labor in African cobalt mines revealed the shocking fact that tens of thousands of children are still growing up without a childhood. On Monday we showed you how most of the mineral used to make batteries is unearthed in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
Hundreds of children in Kipushi, a mining city in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), finally received birth certificates that allow them to attend school for free. Many of the children had worked alongside their parents in cobalt and copper mines. UNICEF provided school kits...
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Children are seen washing cobalt in a lake at a mine in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.CBS News Patta and her team traveled along collapsing dirt roads and saw children everywhere, digging for cobalt among abandoned open pit mines. It was clear that security officials...
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It’s laughable that any of these practices are preventing child labor, especially when Tesla’s cobalt supply is getting mixed in with the output from dozens of area mines. Kamoto Copper Co. is the primary supplier of cobalt to Tesla, and while it runs a large “mechanized” mine, it al...
Also on rt.comApple, Tesla & other US tech giants sued over child labor deaths at cobalt mines in Congo “As the overall production of cocoa increased dramatically, cocoa farming spread into areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana where infrastructure to monitor child labor was weak and awareness...
Rarely mentioned in analyses of world threats, which typically focus on the most complex and expensive systems, light weapons (rifles, grenades, light machine guns, land mines, and other "child-portable" systems) are the weapons most often used in contemporary warfare and produce 80 to 90 ...