Dorsen was discovered by a Sky News team who made an excellent documentary about the use of child labour in smartphone battery cobalt mines earlier this year.. Apple says it is working to end ...

There have been warnings about child labor before -- Amnesty International highlighted the problem in 2016 and Glencore (), a leading cobalt producer, said last month that some small mines in the ...

After child-mined cobalt was exposed in their supply chain, ... Ziki Swaze, 11, speaks to CBS News correspondent Debora Patta outside a cobalt mine in southern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The clean energy revolution is being built on the backs of enslaved children and at the cost of strengthening China.

Amnesty said it traced cobalt from mine sites where child labor is rife, through a Chinese mineral company, Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Ltd., on to battery manufacturers, which in turn claim to supply ...

A child and a woman break rocks extracted from a cobalt and copper mine in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Carmakers have committed tens of billions of dollars to dramatically boost the ...

A worker in a Congolese cobalt mine. Even though cobalt is not classified as a "conflict mineral," the mining conditions are often associated with severe human rights violations, including child ...

Amnesty International and African Resources Watch have issued a report alleging that the supply chains of major electronics companies -- including Apple, Sony and Samsung -- included cobalt mined ...

Major companies like Apple say they’re examining their supply chains, but the CBS reporting suggests it’s hard to track which cobalt was mined with child labor. The Idaho cobalt mine would be ...

Dorsen was discovered by a Sky News team who made an excellent documentary about the use of child labour in smartphone battery cobalt mines earlier this year. Apple says it is working to end child ...