Rogan found the conditions under which the cobalt miners worked so deplorable that he compared it to a form of modern-day ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ADF is known for attacking churches, beheading Christians and kidnapping people for use as slaves or fighters ... coltan and cobalt. The last two are minerals which find wide use in electronics.

Mining and mineral processing of lithium also requires large volumes of water and can pose contamination risks from mine ...

A "silent genocide" -- mimicking the Rwandan one of 1994 -- is occurring eastern Congo, said some Catholic Church sources, as shock greeted the killing of 70 people in a Protestant church in the North ...