Youth (15-24 years) literacy rate (%) 2008-2012*, male78.9
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Plight of African child slaves forced into mines - for our mobile phones | Internationa... - 1 views
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The child miners of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) risk death to dig for a highly dangerous ore used in mobiles, laptops and games consoles.
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Coltan smuggling is big business throughout Africa and is a major source of income for warring militias
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The valuable ore is sold for £300 a kilo but the young slaves risking death to mine it get just £1.50 a week.
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s also blamed for birth defects in the areaswhere it is mined.
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"Children are essential to the process because they can get into smaller holes dug in the river beds."
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"I wonder how many times someone looks at their laptop or their cell phone and thinks, 'there is coltan mined by children in this product'.
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"The end users - the phone and computer companies - say they don't take anything from Congo but there are ways around that for the militia and the people selling it.
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Over 80 per cent of all coltan is mined from DRC, one of the world's poorest countries.
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More than four million children in Congo are not in school and a third of those under the age of five are underweight. Life expectancy is only 44 years and 80 per cent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. The discovery of such a valuable resouce has led neighbouring states to plunder coltan from within Congo's borders.
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Coltan's journey from Congo to your mobile is a complicated one involving militias, arms dealers and finally big business in the west.
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Compaq, Dell, IBM, Nokia and Siemens.
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Apple: time to make a conflict-free iPhone | Delly Mawazo Sesete | Technology | The Gua... - 0 views
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deadly conflict has been raging for over 15 years.
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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
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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.
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. Apple has been an industry leader in both supply chain management and making corporate social responsibility a priority.
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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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Child labor: Children reveal horror of working in mines | World Vision - 1 views
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“Since working here, I have problems with my skin, body pains, and pain in my eyes,” said Jean, an 8-year-old
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Falling down open mine shafts, being trapped or injured by collapsing tunnels, or drowning while mining underwater are all serious threats
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Children’s enzyme systems are still developing so they are less able to detoxify hazardous substances.
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Children dehydrate more easily due to their larger skin surface and because of their faster breathing.
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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.
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How the iPhone Helps Perpetuate Modern-Day Slavery | C. Robert Gibson - 0 views
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, 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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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
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DRC to mine columbite and tantalum, which together can form coltan, a necessary ingredient in modern laptops and smartphones.
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forced employees to sign agreements stating that their employer would be exempt from lawsuits brought by family members in the event of their suicide