child labour

Human rights organization Amnesty International accuses Apple, Samsung, Sony, Daimler, and Volkswagen of failing to undertake basic checks to ensure cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products. The report, entitled "This is what we die for: Human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo power the global trade...

Child labour has been haunting Apple for years: You may recall the BBC's story on the company's supply chain, and other reports. Actually, what those reports failed to mention was that Apple isn't the only company with supply chain problems: Unfortunately, the same goes for the tech industry as a whole. In a radio interview...