50% of the worlds cobalt is mined from the DRC.
UNICEF estimates that 40,000 children are working in the mines located in the DRC.
Amnesty claims that the company often employ children for as little as 2 dollars per day.
It also does not protect employees from the obvious hazards created by working in mines.
Bodies are usually left buried in the rubble, Amnesty claims.
Amnesty International spoke with 87 current and former cobalt miners, of which 17 of them were children.
I would spend 24 hours down in the tunnels.
I arrived in the morning and would leave the following morning… To create such a tracing mechanism would require a large degree of vertical and cross-industry collaboration.
source: www.techworm.net
