An estimated 40,000 children work in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the source of over half of the world’s supply. In Madagascar, an estimated 10,000 children mine for mica.

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 laboring in ...

Five US tech giants including Apple, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet have been named in a lawsuit over the death of child laborers in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Over the last several weeks, two bills targeting Chinese supply chains were reintroduced in Congress. Although different in their approach, the COBALT Supply Chain Act and TASK Act both seek to ...

Researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Melbourne, Australia published a study finding that copper and cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have sustained ...

Anne Basham is the founder and chairwoman of the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking and the CEO of Ascend Consulting, a human rights and security advocacy firm. She is also the former ...