'Cobalt Red' describes the 'horror show' of mining the element in …
WEBFeb 1, 2023 · Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers...
The EV boom is being fueled by exploited cobalt miners - The Verge
WEBFeb 15, 2022 · New reporting by human rights watchdogs reveals that workers at the world’s largest cobalt mines are underpaid, underfed, and, in some cases, physically abused on the job. These mines are set to ...
The EV industry can’t shake its human rights abuse problem - The Verge
WEBMay 18, 2024 · BHRRC has documented 631 allegations of human rights abuses since 2010 for seven key minerals used in electric vehicles, rechargeable batteries, and renewable energy technologies.
The dirty secret of electric vehicles | World Economic Forum
WEBMar 27, 2019 · Amnesty International says human rights abuses, including the use of child labour, in the extraction of minerals, like cobalt, used to make the batteries that power electric vehicles is undermining ethical claims about the cars.
South America's 'lithium fields' reveal the dark side of electric cars
WEBFeb 1, 2022 · Lithium extraction fields in South America have been captured by an aerial photographer in stunning high definition. But while the images may be breathtaking to look at, they represent the dark...
The Dark Side of Electric Cars: Exploitative Labor Practices
WEBSep 29, 2017 · But some electric cars are not, currently, as ethically “clean” as manufacturers would have us believe. Amnesty International’s research has shown that cobalt mined by children and adults in extremely hazardous conditions could be entering the supply chains of some of the world’s largest carmakers.
How Black Lives Became The Hidden Cost of Clean Energy
WEBMay 27, 2024 · The exploitation of Black workers in the Congo has contributed to some Black transit activists in the U.S. not fully supporting the transition to electric vehicles despite the pollution and health benefits for some Black communities at home.
Benita Kayembe takes hard look at hidden human cost of electric cars
WEBApr 25, 2023 · Benita Kayembe takes hard look at hidden human cost of electric cars. Chan graduate’s research focuses on deadly risks, exploitation faced by workers who mine key component of lithium-ion batteries in Republic of the Congo. Alvin Powell. Harvard Staff Writer. April 25, 2023 8 min read.
Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries
WEBJanuary 19, 2016. Exposed: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries. Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products, said Amnesty International and Afrewatch in a report published today.
Mines for electric car metals in Congo strain workers' health, …
WEBAug 4, 2023 · In one of the mining towns, in a cluster of crumbling houses on an alley choked with flattened plastic bottles and chicks scrambling underfoot, lives a worker who tried to fight for his rights ...
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