

Stop exploiting children to mine cobalt in the DRC


Stop exploiting children to mine cobalt in the DRC
The Issue
Apple, Google’s parent company Alphabet, Tesla, Microsoft, and Dell. They are exploiting child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Five children have been recently killed and an untold number injured, while working in the mines of the DRC. Child labourers are aged between 13 and 17 and they are paid as little as £2 per day for a 24hr shift! These companies support this system of forced labor that allegedly led to the deaths and serious injuries of these children, while making millions in profit. Images in previously filed court documents show children with disfigured or missing limbs. These children do not posses the financial support to fight those big corporations and have no voice in the western media! Please sign this petition to get the attention of those in the corporate boardrooms, the share holder's and the average tech users who are far removed from the source of these children's suffering. Human trafficking is also a factor, as several work gangs operate to assemble poor children to work these inhumane hours, using primitive tools such as large hammers and chisels for mining, they then have to sift and carry heavy sacks for weighing! This is slavery in plain sight and cannot be excused any longer!

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The Issue
Apple, Google’s parent company Alphabet, Tesla, Microsoft, and Dell. They are exploiting child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Five children have been recently killed and an untold number injured, while working in the mines of the DRC. Child labourers are aged between 13 and 17 and they are paid as little as £2 per day for a 24hr shift! These companies support this system of forced labor that allegedly led to the deaths and serious injuries of these children, while making millions in profit. Images in previously filed court documents show children with disfigured or missing limbs. These children do not posses the financial support to fight those big corporations and have no voice in the western media! Please sign this petition to get the attention of those in the corporate boardrooms, the share holder's and the average tech users who are far removed from the source of these children's suffering. Human trafficking is also a factor, as several work gangs operate to assemble poor children to work these inhumane hours, using primitive tools such as large hammers and chisels for mining, they then have to sift and carry heavy sacks for weighing! This is slavery in plain sight and cannot be excused any longer!

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Petition created on 19 December 2019