Human rights activist warns of abuses in Congo cobalt mines: 'Moral clock dialed back to colonial times'
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Human rights activist Siddharth Kara shares the connection between cobalt, lithium-ion batteries, major companies like Apple, Tesla and Microsoft and human rights abuses.
Roughly 90% of the world’s cobalt supply is mined in the DCR, according to DailyMail.com. FIArtisanal miners work at Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 11, 2016. (REUTERS/Kenny Katombe/File Photo) A Congolese man carries bags of copper and cobalt ore at an open-pit mine just outside the southern Congolese copper town of Lubumbashi in this February 3, 2006 file photo. (REUTERS/David Lewis/Files) A picture of artisanal miners working at a cobalt mine in the DRC on Oct. 12, 2022. (JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP via Getty Images) Ashley Carnahan is a production assistant at Fox News Digital.
Kara, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights, painted a grim picture of life for African families, telling Daily Mail.com, "there are hundreds of thousands of the poorest people on the planet [mining for cobalt]."