Name: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives
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Author: Siddharth Kara
ISBN: 9781250284303

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives

Type

Physical Book

Author

Siddharth Kara

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.7 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781250284303

Synopsis "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives "

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation--and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo--because we are all implicated.

Siddharth Kara

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Writer, researcher, screenwriter, and activist against modern slavery. He is a global professor at the British Academy, visiting scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, associate professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the University of Nottingham, and part of the Rights Lab’s Measurement and Geographies Programme. He is the author of three books on modern slavery: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009); Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012); and Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective (2017). Kara adapted his first book into a Hollywood movie, Trafficked, and is the author of the reports: Tainted Carpets: Slavery and Child Labor in India’s Hand-Made Carpet Sector (Harvard, 2014), and Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-Based Garment Sector (UC Berkeley, 2019). Over twenty-one years of research, traveling to more than fifty countries, he has mapped the global networks of human trafficking, explored the dangerous underworld of sex slaves victims of trafficking, and tracked the global supply chains of numerous basic products tainted by slavery and child labor. Kara advises various UN agencies and Governments on policy and legislation against slavery. He has appeared in media such as CNN, BBC, The Guardian, CNBC, or National Geographic.

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