As Tesla sales tank, it’s not exactly the best time for the automaker to receive more bad press. However, Tesla faces a lawsuit for allegedly using child labor to mine precious metals for its EV ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: massive regional economic repair.

Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie highlighting the crisis.

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 seized one of the world’s most productive coltan concessions, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, a UN report estimates that 120 tonnes of the precious ...

All three of these announcements come just days before President elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the ...

Police cut off food and water to illegal Stilfontein mine Aim was to ... out in three-day rescue Labour union: this was a state-sponsored massacre STILFONTEIN, South Africa, Jan 16 (Reuters ...

His labor nominee presents a major test HIV infections could jump over 6 times if US support is dropped and not replaced, UNAIDS chief says All three of these announcements come just days before ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

Donald Trump’s fury against South Africa is ignorant of the centuries of European oppression of Black natives, writes ...