Author Siddharth Kara is sounding the alarm on a growing human rights issue ... Republic of the Congo (DCR) after he witnessed workers, including children, laboring in cobalt mines for $2- a ...

To address the insecurity, Congo’s government declared ... to pro-democracy and anti-corruption activists, human rights groups working in the mining sector, whistleblowers, coalitions fighting ...

This cobalt can come at a high human price ... conditions in Congo’s informal mining sector vaulted into the world’s headlines after Amnesty International and the Congolese rights group ...

all the way to the artisanal mining level. Enforce human rights and sustainability principles vigorously and consistently. Treat the artisanal miners of the Congo the same way they treat employees ...

said in a statement accompanying its 2023 Congo mining report. “Decarbonizing the global economy must not lead to further human-rights violations.” When it comes to vaping, studies have ...

KAWAMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - JUNE 8 ... in electric vehicles and electronic devices. Mining of cobalt is now linked to grave human rights abuses, including the exposure of miners ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Prominent human rights group Amnesty International ... After capturing the key mining town of Masisi in North-Kivu province earlier this month, fighting intensified around ...

The conflict in eastern Congo is rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle over Congo's vast mineral resources. Rwanda denies U.N. allegations that it backs the M23, saying ...