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FACT: CHILDREN MINE COBALT FOR OUR SMARTPHONES, LAPTOPS, ELECTRIC CARS & MORE |
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"THE PICTURES SCREAM OUT, THIS IS WRONG!" EXPLOITED CHILDREN MINE COBALT FOR OUR SMARTPHONES WHILE CORPORATIONS MAKE BILLIONS [Alex Crawford, Sky News] |
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Citizens are asking Tim Cook, Apple CEO to help children. What does Tim Cook say? |
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Apple's policy for addressing human rights abuses: "If year-over-year improvement is not demonstrated by a low-performing supplier, they risk losing our business." |
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Children can't eat words, so what would help? |
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Money for food, clothes, shelter and education, which could be raised every time a product is sold containing cobalt from DR Congo. This would need the will of corporates to organise this. This would require a degree of morality.
In reality, children labour 12 hours for as little as 8p. They often earn nothing. They go hungry. They suffer. They die.
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In 2018 there were around (1.56 billion)
1,560,000,000 smartphones sold
£1 or $1 on the sale of every smartphone would
free children from slavery
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THESE ARE SOME OF THE MEN WHO COULD HELP THE COBALT CHILDREN |
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TIM COOK, CEO OF APPLE |
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MATTHEUS MULLER, CEO OF VOLKSWAGEN |
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SUNDAR PICHAI, CEO OF GOOGLE |
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ROBERT PUSKARIC, CEO OF DORO |
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LORIC POIRIER, CEO OF ARCHOS |
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YANG YUANQING, CEO OF LENOVO |
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MICHAEL DELL, CEO OF DELL |
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YANG YUANQING, CEO OF LENOVO |
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JASON CHEN, CEO OF ACER |
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NICK JEFFREY, CEO OF VODAFONE |
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What has happened to Richard & Dorsen? |
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How you can help |
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Facts about corporates and cobalt mining in DR Congo |
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