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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining ...
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 ...
Amnesty International alleged in 2016 that some cobalt sold by Congo Dongfang Mining was produced by child labour, and that it was being used in lithium-ion batteries powering electric cars and mobile devices worldwide. [181] [182] BBC, in 2012, accused Glencore of using child labour in its mining and smelting operations of Africa. Glencore ...
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]
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 ...
An Amnesty International report on cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo linked Apple to suppliers using child labor, some children as young as seven in 2016. [156] The following year, The Washington Post reported Apple's intention to stop buying cobalt from the region until conditions were improved. [157]
A measure was introduced in the U.S. House in July to ban imported products containing cobalt and copper and mined through child labor and other abusive conditions in Congo.
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.