An international advocacy group has accused Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Tesla of"knowingly benefiting from" the use of young children to mine cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Further, the horrors of the plight of these children has been widely reported in the media," the complaint said, citing reports about the cobalt pipeline published by the Washington Post, the Guardian and others. The new suit was filed on behalf of more than a dozen anonymous plaintiffs, who are described as"guardians of children killed in tunnel or wall collapses" while mining, or"children who were maimed in such accidents."
"Since 2016, we have published a full list of our identified cobalt refiners every year, 100% of which are participating in independent third party audits," a spokesperson said."If a refiner is unable or unwilling to meet our standards, they will be removed from our supply chain. We've removed six cobalt refiners in 2019."
"We have never knowingly sourced operations using any form of involuntary labor, fraudulent recruiting practices or child labor. We work with suppliers to manage their sourcing programs responsibly. Any supplier with reports of misconduct is investigated and, if misconduct is found, removed from our supply chain," the company added.
Common! have they investigated where the chocolate we eat comes from? And do they know that peeps harvesting it from the beginning have never tasted it?
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