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Jane M

How the iPhone Helps Perpetuate Modern-Day Slavery | C. Robert Gibson - 0 views

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iphone slavery

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    • Jane M
      Jane M on 14 Jan 16
       
      Companies that use slave tainted cobalt: Apple HP Samsung
  • The iPhone 6 is coming out soon. But you don't need one
  • enabling their abuse of workers
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  • HP laptop I'm using to write this article was made in the same way
  • Samsung smartphone I used to tweet this article after it was published
  • Apple is the most glaring exampl
  • , seven million people have died in a civil war that continues to plague the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
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      Jane M on 14 Jan 16
       
      child labor coltan from DRC is then sent to child labor factories in China.
  • children as young as 13 are forced to work in the mines for as little as 2 dollars a da
  • carry a store-bought, battery-powered flashlight, and often die from brutal working conditions that result in suffocation, cave-ins, and death from sheer exhaustion
    • Jane M
      Jane M on 14 Jan 16
       
      Dell uses coltan from DRC too
  • Apple, Samsung, Dell, and HP
  • 80 percent of the world's coltan supply comes from the region
  • DRC to mine columbite and tantalum, which together can form coltan, a necessary ingredient in modern laptops and smartphones.
  • raw materials mined in Congo are then sent to factories in China
  • "labor camp,"
  • Seventeen workers attempted suicide, and 14 died jumping from the roof of the building in 2010
  • forced employees to sign agreements stating that their employer would be exempt from lawsuits brought by family members in the event of their suicide
  • 298 per month
  • decision will ultimately be up to us, the buyers.
  • mined by underpaid and overworked Congolese teenagers
  • assembled by underpaid and overworked Chinese teenagers
  • willing to buy shiny new gadgets for a little more if they knew they were made sustainably.
  • pay raises never came.
  • How the iPhone Helps P
Jane M

Child miners face death for tech - The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery -... - 0 views

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iphone slavery technology child labor cnn death

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  • 07:51 PM ET Share this on: Facebook Twitter Digg del.icio.us reddit MySpace StumbleUpon Child miners face death for tech
  • Roger-Claude Liwanga is a human rights lawyer from the Congo and visiting scholar at Boston University
  • “Children of the Mines,” which will be launched shortly in Boston
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  • The Numbers
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      Jane M on 15 Jan 16
       
      Primary source
  • 40 percent of them are children.
  • Six months ago, I met a boy I will call Lukoji in the mine washing site of Dilala near the DRC’s Kolwezi city.
  • children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were hard at work in the country’s artisanal mines.
  • Seventy-five percent of children surveyed in the DRC’s artisanal mines are dropouts
  • 12 and 13
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      Jane M on 15 Jan 16
       
      Mining prevents education
  • Kolwezi, Likasi and Lubumbashi,
  • 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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      Jane M on 15 Jan 16
       
      underpaid
  • 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.
  • “I began working in the mines when I was five”.
  • The work conditions in the artisanal mines are
    • Jane M
      Jane M on 15 Jan 16
       
      biased source
  • get killed in soil collapses
  • province of Katanga alone is about 6.6 per month
  • 20 percent said that at least one of their family members or friends had died in the mine in the last three years.
  • inhumane.
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      Jane M on 15 Jan 16
       
      leads to other problems (health)
  • life-time disabilities.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • coltan, cobalt, and copper, among others
  • has 64% of the world’s reserves,
  • obalt is used to produce rechargeable batteries for hybrid electric vehicles, laptops and cell phones.
  • He innocently pointed his index finger towards the mining depots located around the mines and owned principally by the Chinese.
  • Congo to Asia for refining.
Kamryn T

Apple: time to make a conflict-free iPhone | Delly Mawazo Sesete | Technology | The Gua... - 0 views

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cobalt mining in dominican republic of congo

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  • deadly conflict has been raging for over 15 years.
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      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      If this had been a conflict for such a while know why are people just now acting on it?
  • These minerals are part of your daily life.
  • They keep your computer running so you can surf the internet. They save your high score on your Playstation. They make your cell phone vibrate when someone calls you.
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  • While minerals from the Congo have enriched your life, they have often brought violence, rape and instability to my home country
  • I witnessed the deadly chemicals dumped into the local environment. I saw the use of rape as a weapon. And despite receiving multiple death threats for my work, I've continued to call for peace, development and dignity in Congo's minerals trade.
  • . Apple has been an industry leader in both supply chain management and making corporate social responsibility a priority.
    • Kamryn T
      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      Does apple know that they are buying cobalt mined from child slaves?
  • irst company to create a Congo conflict-free phone, using minerals from Congo that further stability and economic development and don't use slave labor or fund mass atrocities.
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