seven legal representatives of former miners who are still children, and five representatives of child laborers who were killed in cobalt mining operations, the ruling said. The miners were ...

including four former miners and legal representatives of child miners who lost their lives and suffered major injuries in cobalt mining operations in the DRC. The defendants were accused of ...

After revelations of child labor and treacherous conditions in many cobalt mines, automakers and mineral companies said they would adhere to international safety standards The Shabara artisanal ...

The DRC’s industrial mines are typically structured ... to “immediately and urgently eliminate child and forced labor from the cobalt value chain, contribute to the sustainable development ...

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 ...

In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.

But almost one-third of Congo cobalt is gouged from the earth by artisanal miners: men and women ... and prevention of child labor and slavery. What indifferent, self-serving fraud.

“On the backs of trafficked workers and child laborers ... to extract cobalt and other minerals,” he said. One such mine located in Kasulo is owned by the Chinese company Dongfang Congo ...

FIRST ON FOX: Minerals produced from artisanal African mines that may employ child labor continue to be used in base components of batteries, including those potentially used in electric vehicles ...

It's laughable that any of these practices are preventing child labor, especially when Tesla's cobalt supply is getting mixed in with the output from dozens of area mines. Kamoto Copper Co. is the ...

Cobalt mines in DRC supply Apple, Google, Microsoft and Tesla with materials needed for their products, according to child labor lawsuits filed against the companies. The rare mineral, however ...

over deaths and serious injuries sustained by child laborers in cobalt mines. In October 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor added lithium-ion batteries to its list of goods produced by child labor.