Tech giants sued over ‘appalling’ deaths of children who mine their cobalt | CBC Radio
Can you tell us some of the stories you have heard,
some of the things that you have found out about these children who are
mining cobalt?
some of the things that you have found out about these children who are
mining cobalt?
The research I’ve done … has yielded
some of the most heartbreaking, appalling and utterly unimaginable
levels of exploitation and suffering of any sector that I’ve
researched in almost two decades of research into slavery and child
labour.
The peasant population, and the children in particular,
are eking out a sub-human existence, caked in toxic filth and grime as
they mine for the cobalt that is used in every lithium-ion rechargeable
battery on the planet.