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....
The work is hard enough for an adult man, but it is unthinkable for a child. Yet tens of thousands of Congolese kids are involved in every stage of mining for cobalt. The latest research by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates 40,000 children are working in DRC mines....
Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a booming industry that is putting a lot of citizens to work, as something like 70 percent of the world’s cobalt comes from the African nation. Humanitarian groups are concerned that these workers are often children spending their format...
The report, entitled 'This is what we die for: Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo power the global trade in cobalt,' also includes testimony from adult and child miners who work long shifts with no protective equipment, in danger of fatal accidents and permanent lung dam...
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. ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s response to artisanal cobalt mining: The Entreprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) supplies the vast majority of the world's cobalt used for the production of battery critical to the green transi... R Deberdt...
Metal mining and birth defects: a case-control study in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo BackgroundWidespread environmental contamination caused by mining of copper and cobalt has led to concerns about the possible association between birth def... DV Brusselen,T Kayembe-Kitenge,Sébastien...
The article discusses the possibility of urban agriculture (UA) as an alternative to the copper and cobalt mining. Mining had dominated employment in Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the presence of the mining company Générale des Carrières et des Mines (...