Residents have some of the highest lead levels in the world - especially in children aged 5 years and younger 'The horrendous ongoing consequences of mining for Kabwe's children should ...
In 2020 Shell will face unprecedented legal scrutiny over decades of human rights abuses in Nigeria, Amnesty International said on Monday, as the oil giant braces itself for conclusions in ...
Amnesty International is publicly challenging leaders within the electric vehicle industry to make the world's first completely ethical battery within five years. At the Nordic Electric Vehicle (EV) Summit in ...
By Mia Swart The 2012 Marikana massacre in South Africa’s North West Province, in which 34 miners were killed by the police, remains an unhealed scar in post democratic South Africa. Two ...
By Amnesty International The phone you’re using or the electric car you’re driving could be linked to child labour. Lithium-ion batteries powering most electric vehicles and cell phones contain the ...
Political impasse in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC Congo), in which both the opposition and the government are not willing to compromise, has brought the country’s economy at a standstill, ...
Approximately 20 percent of the total mineral in the DRC is mined by unregulated, “artisanal” miners. According to a 2014 estimate by UNICEF, about 40,000 of these miners are children. ...
