CBS News' investigation ofchild labor in African cobalt minesrevealed 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. Many top...
An Amnesty International investigation claims child labor is being used to acquire cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a mineral used in the production of lithium-ion batteries purchased by tech companies like Apple. The report, published on Monday by Amnesty and DPR non-profit...
A CBS News investigation ofchild laborincobalt minesin the Democratic Republic of Congo has revealed that tens of thousands of children are growing up without a childhood today – two years after a damningAmnesty report about human rights abuses in the cobalt tradewas published. The Amnesty repor...
In clear language, the filing condemns the use of child labor, and says that since they don't own any cobalt mines, a supplier such as Glencore as named in the suit can't be positively identified as the source of cobalt that they use. Cobalt is a primary ingredient in bat...
Child labor is used in mining cobalt from African artisanal mines.[79][82] Human rights activists have highlighted this and investigative journalism reporting has confirmed it.[83][84] This revelation prompted cell phone maker Apple Inc., on March 3, 2017, to stop buying ore from suppliers su...
Since around 20% of the cobalt mined in the DRC originates from small-scale artisanal mines, often employing child labor, the extraction of the metal has been a point of intense debate. With a long history of conflict, political upheaval, and instability, the country is often listed among ...
In a 2021 ruling by a federal court in Washington, Google parent Alphabet, Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla were relieved from a class action suit claiming their responsibility for alleged child labor in Congolese cobalt mines. The Future of Cobalt Despite ongoing efforts to substitute cobalt ...
Since 2016, Amnesty International has denounced cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo for human rights violations and the use of child labor. This has led LG Chem and other companies to insist on standards for battery cell suppliers, as a ste
Unfortunately, about half the world’s cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a war-torn land in which working conditions are bad, andchild labor is common. In 2014, as many as 40,000 children worked in mines in the DRC, many of them mining cobalt, according to ...
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife