The tech giants were found not liable for forced labor in Congo's cobalt mines. LONDON -- A U.S. court has absolved five of America's biggest tech companies in a case over their alleged support of ...

The plaintiffs accused five tech companies of joining suppliers in a "forced labor" venture by purchasing cobalt, which is used to make lithium-ion batteries that are widely used in electronics.

Energy Researchers reveal EV industry can still be linked to child labor-fueled mines Mining associated with EV batteries is 'tainted by various degrees of abuse, including slavery, child labor ...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a child labor case Tuesday against technology companies and refused to hold them accountable for their alleged support of the use ...

Tesla plans to source 6,000 tons of cobalt annually from a DRC mine linked to child labor. However, Tesla claims to have a zero-tolerance policy.

Children working in some of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) cobalt mines are getting support to trade their tools for textbooks to escape from dangerous and even fatal worker exploitation, ...

The U.S. has introduced a new measure that would ban products containing minerals sourced with child labor in Congo, where China has enormous mining stakes.

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable." ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the Democratic ...

Almost every country has committed to preventing child labor, but the issue persists through entrenched systemic drivers: the demand for cheap, fast production and the impunity of corporations ...

The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the ...