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The Effects of Mining for Blood Batteries - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law


Producing a battery is resource intensive and demand for metals like cobalt, copper and nickel is soaring, leading to their colloquial name “blood batteries”. To fill that demand, artisanal miners in the Congo are digging deep, working under terrible conditions and with death as a looming risk. 


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