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Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center Who should take a stand against abusive child labor being used in Congo to dig out coltan?

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Who should take a stand against abusive child labor being used in Congo to dig out Coltan?

The Congo has been a favorite kettle for Western civil rights activists for decades. It allows them to incessantly call it black, ignoring the fact that they happen to live in the pot. Yes, there is child labor in the Congo, the by-product of years of brutal warfare, post-colonial malaise, and commercial interests. And these children are forced into monstrously bad conditions to scrape coltan ore out of the Congo's rich soil to be refined into tantalum for consumer electronics in North America a...

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