From European and American slave traders beginning in the 1500s to colonization ... Unfortunately, he notes, most people do not know what is happening in the cobalt mines of the Congo, because the ...

The NSW antislavery commissioner will commence an immediate investigation after concerns were raised that new electric buses commissioned by the Minns government may have links to slavery and child ...

Shadow treasurer Damien Tudehope said concerns that the creation of the state’s new electric bus fleet could be connected “to children mining cobalt in the Congo and Uyghur slaves making ...

No way around Congolese cobalt The dusty red earth in Congolese mining areas and the air-conditioned ... Congolese confidence Over 100 years ago, slaves in the Congo Free State, effectively ...

The Jan. 21 story about mining opportunities ... for nickel 210%, cobalt 450% and platinum 200%. Any part of the supply to that demand that is coming from slave labor, countries that are our ...

Although we often imagine the digital world that surrounds us to be as substanceless and immaterial as light – a notion the tech industry encourages by using terms such as “the cloud” – in fact it is ...

Tens of thousands of children – some of them as young as six – work their entire lives in the mines, often as slaves ... to Congolese minerals (e.g. cobalt, coltan, and gold).” ...

And Cobalt is mined in one place in the world - and that's Congo. China owns about 80% of the mines and they exploit child and slave labor to mine. Hanna reiterated that the ION Storage System ...