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Human traffickers luring Ukrainian refugees on the web targeted in EU-wide hackathon
14 EU Member States joined forces during a joint action day to identify human traffickers searching for Ukrainian victims online …
OPINION: U.S. law to ban Xinjiang goods protects Uyghur people. But it can’t end there
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The …
Forced to Beg: Tanzania’s Trafficked Kids
A BBC undercover investigation has exposed a human trafficking network smuggling disabled children from Tanzania to Kenya. Many are taken …
Congo Investigation a Chance to Fight Corruption
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed last week that they had opened an inquiry following allegations of high-level corruption reported by …
Industry giants fail to tackle child labour allegations in cobalt battery supply chains
Major electronics and electric vehicle companies are still not doing enough to stop human rights abuses entering their cobalt supply …
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children …
Cobalt Is Critical to the Renewable Energy Transition. How Can We Minimize Its Social And Environmental Cost?
Its name conjures an image of vivid deep blues. But when cobalt is dug out of the ground in ore …
Alarming research shows long lasting harm from cobalt mine abuses
Commenting on new research by the universities of Lubumbashi, Leuven and Ghent, which suggests that exposure to toxic pollution is …
Is your phone tainted by the misery of the 35,000 children in Congo’s mines?
Until recently, I knew cobalt only as a colour. Falling somewhere between the ocean and the sky, cobalt blue has …
Making Mining Safe and Fair
Global demand for cobalt, a key component of lithium-ion batteries used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles, is expected to …