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Roger-Claude Liwanga is a human rights lawyer from the Congo and visiting scholar at Boston University
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Six months ago, I met a boy I will call Lukoji in the mine washing site of Dilala near the DRC’s Kolwezi city.
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children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were hard at work in the country’s artisanal mines.
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The children’s earnings range from $0.75 to $3 a day, which they use to buy food, clothes and shoes, or towards school fees.
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bare hands and feet to dig, sift, wash and lift heavy loads of minerals. These tasks expose them to high probabilities of being injured or killed.
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20 percent said that at least one of their family members or friends had died in the mine in the last three years.
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who told me that he walks with a limp because a big stone fell on his right leg and broke it while he was extracting minerals five years ago.
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Mining work is prohibited by the Congolese Labor Code for children under 18. Despite the legal prohibition, there are few initiatives to prevent children from working in the mines, and there are almost no prosecutions against those who employ children or buy minerals coming from child labor.
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obalt is used to produce rechargeable batteries for hybrid electric vehicles, laptops and cell phones.
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He innocently pointed his index finger towards the mining depots located around the mines and owned principally by the Chinese.