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”Female artisanal miners suffered CHRONIC sexual assault, were paid much less than men, and had virtually no options for safety.” Women and girls are always exploited more in already exploitative environments 🙁

”Please tell the people in your country, a child in the Congo dies everyday so that they can plug in their phones.”

Forced child labour 😒☹️

1-2 thousand CHILDREN dig at Tilwezembe on any given day??😥

”so long as the political elite were content to continue the tradition of government-as-theft established by their colonial antecedents, the people of the Congo would continue to suffer.” 🫩🫩🫩

Are you worried you or he might get injured like Gloire? - Yes of course, but if we do not dig, we do not eat” :(

A layer of mustard colored dust on the whole town and people of Tenke… dried sulfuric acid 😟

”No one wants to live out there! But there is cobalt and gold, so the army takes the poorest people and makes them dig.” 🫩

”What did that child die for? For one sack of cobalt? Is that what Congolese children are worth?” Absolutely horrifying 💔

Ofc there’s artisanal production on industrial sites as well 😐

Yeah this is why nobody helps them get education and stay in school, if the kids can’t attend school because the family need money to just survive -> they will keep being poor and then keep the cobalt chain running. Without so many poor people forced to dig the cobalt supply would cripple. They won’t help bcz it’s not in their best interest ☹️😡

The fact that Kipushi is just the start and not even the worst of these mining cities is horrifying

”Toxic dust and gases from mining plants and diesel equipment spreads for many kilometres and are inhaled by the local population. The mining companies have polluted the entire region. All the crops, animals, and fish stocks are contaminated.” 😐

”Philippe told me that women were always paid less than men for the same sack of cobalt”. Ofc they were😐

”I thank God for taking my babies,” she said. ”Here it is better not to be born.” Omggg☹️💔

”The women said they all knew someone who had been shoved into a pit and attacked, the likely cause of at least some of the babies strapped to teenage backs”. STOPPP☹️
”The women and girls who suffered these attacks (SA) represented the invisible, brutalised backbone of the global cobalt supply chain”. This is insane🫩🫩🙁🙁😞

That and traces of radioactive uranium😟☢️ damm🙁

I didn’t know cobalt was toxic to touch and breath too?! This makes all of it even worse..

”If our resources are sold to foreigners for the benefit of the political elite, instead of investing in education and development for our people, in two generations, we will have two hundred million people who are poor, uneducated, and have nothing left of value. This is what is happening, and if it does not stop, it will be a disaster”.😥

Earning 1/2 dollars a day….

”At no point in history have the Congolese people benefited in any meaningful way from the monetization of their country’s resources”🫩

”Artisanal miners” hantverksmässiga gruvarbetare…😒

”No company wants to concede that the rechargeable batteries used to power smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles contain cobalt mined by peasants and children in hazardous conditions” 🙁

AI algorithms are biased, who would have guessed😍

Yes generative AI perpetuate stereotypes, we going backwards on diversity issues🙁

”Men’s rights activists” ??😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Ai models like chat GPT are gender biased - would never have guessed😐 I’m never using it

”Move fast and break things” we know ur gay Mark zucker

white tech men trying to make AI products everyone will like (and not just creepy white men) challenge: impossible

AI child bots????? The normalised pedophilia is insane ”it’s better if they take out their urges on bots than real children” 😐 like this free space ain’t gonna make it worse