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Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a ...
In a 2016 report, Amnesty International blamed Chinese firms for child labor in Congo’s cobalt mining and multinational tech firms for failing to address the negative human rights issue in their ...
In 2008, Bloomberg claimed child labour in copper and cobalt mines that supplied Chinese companies in Congo. The children are creuseurs , that is they dig the ore by hand, carry sacks of ores on their backs, and these are then purchased by these companies.
Minimum wage laws are rarely followed at mines. Work week hour standards, overtime payment and rest periods are largely ignored as well. Child labor laws are rarely enforced; child laborers comprise up to 30% of the mining labor force. Deaths and violent injury at mining work sites are commonplace. [133] [134]
Today, mine worker exploitation is still prevalent and instances of slave labor, and especially child labor, are still observed in the mining industry according to the 2014 U.S. Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor.
A desperate search for survival – women and children as young as nine years old spend hours each day digging at a cobalt mine in Kolwezi City in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has dismissed the child labor case on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 against the tech companies Apple, Tesla, Google, Microsoft, and Dell and has refused to hold them accountable for child labor being used in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [8]
One study showed as much as 30% of Congo’s cobalt is sourced from artisanal mines. Pay these men, women and children a buck or two a day, then mix the mined cobalt into the supply chain, with ...