Do you understand that these artisanal mines have thousands of children working in the condition of essentially slavery, mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Derrick Van Orden: “Do you understand that these artisanal mines have thousands of children working in the condition of essentially slavery…”
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Van Orden highlights child labor issues in cobalt mining for electric vehicle batteries.
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