Since 2003, Pact has worked on a wide range of development issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly focused on artisanal and small-scale mining communities. Our work in DRC is helping to make this vital livelihood safer, more formalized and productive, and free of human rights abuses.
اقرأ المزيدPublication date: May 6, 2017 Center for Effective Global Action Policy Report Artisanal Mining, Livelihoods, and Child Labor in the Cobalt Supply Chain of the Democratic Republic of Congo Benjamin Faber, Benjamin Krause, and Raul Sanchez De La …
اقرأ المزيدConflict Minerals, Inc. War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo. Have international efforts to regulate resource extraction from war zones in the DRC done more harm than good? Wakenge, C. I., Dijkzeul, D., Vlassenroot, K. (2018). Regulating the old game of smuggling? Coltan mining trade and reforms in the Democratic Republic …
اقرأ المزيد4 COBALT MINING IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: ADDRESSING ROOT CAUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES global cobalt demand. That demand is projected to increase four-fold by 2030, even as many auto companies are already beginning to reduce the
اقرأ المزيدIn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector plays an important role in the local economy. While large-scale armed conflict over DRC's mineral wealth has decreased significantly over the past twenty years, armed actors continuously interfere in the mining sector, and conflicts over …
اقرأ المزيدThe Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the world's most important mineral reserves. For more than a decade the extraction of these resources has been linked to conflict, human rights abuses and corruption. In the southern province of Katanga, people's lives have been torn apart as a result of mining operations. Small …
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