Five big tech firms face child labour death charges
Fourteen families from DRC bring legal complaint against Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Dell
17 December 2019 - 09:54
New York — Five of the world’s largest tech companies have been accused of being complicit in the death of children in Africa forced to mine cobalt, a metal used to make telephones and computers, in a landmark lawsuit.
The legal complaint on behalf of 14 families from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was filed on Sunday by International Rights Advocates, a US-based human rights non-profit organisation, against Tesla, Apple, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft and Dell...
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