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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The current state of child labor and human rights violations in Congo’s mining sector “is particularly critical,” a Jesuit priest told a recent House hearing looking ...

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 ...

The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group has deported over 1,500 people from occupied eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda in violation of the ...

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 ...