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waynerad@diasp.org
Wayne Radinsky

Apple, Alphabet, Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla "don't have to compensate victims of forced child labor that provided cobalt for the lithium-ion batteries used in many electronic devices, a US appeals court ruled."

"Purchasing an unspecified amount of cobalt through the global supply chain is not 'participation in a venture' within the meaning of the TVPRA [Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008]," the ruling said. "We therefore affirm the district court's dismissal of the complaint."

"Companies such as Glencore, Huayou, and Eurasian Resources Group obtain cobalt from subsidiaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo."

Big Tech firms beat lawsuit from child laborers forced to work in cobalt mines

#solidstatelife #cobalt #mining #childlabor #ethics

Big Tech firms beat lawsuit from child laborers forced to work in cobalt mines

Buying cobalt doesn't make US firms liable for abuses in DR Congo, court rules.

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katherinebond@diasp.org
Katherine Bond

Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country

At a time when serious child labor violations are on the rise in hazardous meatpacking and manufacturing jobs, several state legislatures are weakeningβ€”or threatening to weakenβ€”child labor protections. The trend reflects a coordinated multi-industry push to expand employer access to low-wage labor and weaken state child labor laws in ways that contradict federal protections, in pursuit of longer-term industry-backed goals to rewrite federal child labor laws and other worker protections for the whole country. Children of families in poverty, and especially Black, brown, and immigrant youth, stand to suffer the most harm from such changes.

https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attack/

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Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country: Amid increasing child labor violations, lawmakers must act to strengthen standards

What this report finds: States across the country are attempting to weaken child labor protections, just as violations of these standards are rising. This report identifies bills weakening child labor standards in eight states that have been...

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eileen@despora.de
Eileen Brophy

Please sign and share and tell P&G: End the Carnage
Procter & Gamble sure is a corporate leader...in sourcing from companies that enable deforestation, Indigenous rights violations, and child labor. It's time for P&G to drop dirty palm oil suppliers like Royal Golden Eagle, who traffic in human and environmental misery.

https://act.ran.org/page/48240/action/1?ea.tracking.id=e_en&en_og_source=e_en&utm_medium=

#Petition #StopDeforestation #ChildLabor #PalmOil #IndigenousRights

P&G: End the Carnage

Procter & Gamble sure is a corporate leader...in sourcing from companies that enable deforestation, Indigenous rights violations, and child labor. It's time for P&G to drop dirty palm oil suppliers like Royal Golden Eagle, who traffic in human and...