Amnesty says "it is widely recognized internationally that the involvement of children in mining constitutes one of the worst forms of child labour, which governments are required to prohibit and eliminate."
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...
According to Amnesty, traders purchase mined minerals from smaller cobalt producers and sell it to Congo Dongfang Mining (CDM), a subsidiary of Chinese mineral purveyor Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Ltd. (Huayou Cobalt). From there the cobalt moves on to three battery manufacturers in China and ...
The vast DR Congo in central Africa has immense mineral resources but remains one of the least developed nations in the world. Rather than easing poverty, mining has helped fund more than 20 years of conflict, particularly in the eastern North and South Kivu provinces, which furnish large amoun...
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
oxidative DNA damage. It was already known that industrial mining and processing of metals has led to severe environmental pollution in the region. This field study provides novel and robust empirical evidence that the artisanal extraction of cobalt that prevails in the DR Congo may cause toxic ...
The Dark Side of Samsung's Value Chain: The Human Costs of Cobalt Mining "BLOOD, SWEAT AND COBALT" Value ChainEthicsChild LabourSamsung has been implicitly linked to human rights abuses and wider social downgrading propagated within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Reports by different ...
"Today the world's biggest seller of cobalt is China," said Congolese economist Musha. "The product clearly does not benefit the Congolese economy." The cobalt sector has attracted widespread criticism from NGOs for use of child labour, hazardous working conditions, corruption and theft. ...
The news agencyReutersreported on the development with reference to an unnamed BMW executive. According to the report, BMW will sourcecobaltdirectly from mines in both countries in order to ensure that its mining is not linked to child labour. Meanwhile, a spokesman for Glencore mining and tradin...
The clean energy revolution hinges on the Democratic Republic of Congo — where conflict, corruption, and child labor are rife