LONDON -- A U.S. court has absolved five of America's biggest tech companies in a case over their alleged support of child labor in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday The ...

In a 3-0 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Google parent Alphabet, Apple, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, and Tesla, rejecting an appeal by former ...

Signage is seen at the entrance of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 30, 2020.

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 ...

The Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs concluded that more than 40,000 children, including children as young as 6 years old, work in cobalt mines in the DRC.

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

KINSHASA, (June 12, 2024) – 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 ...

According to SEC.gov, Tesla relies on child labor to mine precious metals such as cobalt. ... Tesla plans to source 6,000 tons of cobalt annually from a DRC mine linked to child labor.

Around 80% of the DRC's cobalt output is owned by Chinese companies, who refine the mineral in China and then sell it to battery makers. Shareholders voted against the proposal as part of their annual ...

Child labor violations increased by roughly four times between 2015 and 2022, and hazard occupation violations more than doubled during the same period. More News Briefs. Thursday, June 12, 2025, 2:42 ...

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." ...