Belgium has started a criminal probe into allegations that Apple has knowingly sourced “blood minerals” from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what lawyers for the central African country have ...

Over the past several years, hidden debt and problematic projects have begun to emerge as a feature of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s signature Belt And Road Initiative (BRI). A new deep-dive study from ...

A federal appeals court... refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the Democratic Republic of the ...

In a joint statement issued today, Monday 18 January 2021, the villagers, represented by Leigh Day solicitors, and Vedanta Resources Ltd said: “Without admission of liability, Vedanta Resources ...

The energy transition is fuelling a global competition to secure access to key transition minerals, with Chinese overseas ...

"Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic", 18. January 2023 [...] But the success story is not one of Silicon Valley genius alone. In its quest to ...

"Ursula von der Leyen pledges EU-wide social media ban for children", 13 July 2026. The European Commission president, Ursula ...

Ecuador’s Waorani indigenous communities, through the Waorani Organization of Pastaza (OWAP), held an intercultural hearing ...

Last month, Italy’s UniCredit made a surprise announcement. The international bank with the second-largest remaining Russian ...

The Business and Human Rights Centre’s (BHRC) June 2026 survey of US corporate human rights practice describes unpublicised efforts by companies to cut back on their human rights staff, redirect what ...

Working people in Bangladesh have long been engaged in an unequal struggle with nature. A single day of excessive rainfall can destroy a farmer’s crops, halt the work of day labourers, and bring ...

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