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‘Here it is better not to be born’: Cobalt mining for Big Tech is driving child labor, deaths in the Congo
‘Here it is better not to be born’: Cobalt mining for Big Tech is driving child labor, deaths in the Congo,Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a nightmarish world in which billions of people are unwittingly complicit. Senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle reports

‘Here it is better not to be born’: Cobalt mining for Big Tech is driving child labor, deaths in the Congo

Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a nightmarish world in which billions of people are unwittingly complicit. Senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle reports