Democratic Republic of Congo: Mining

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to support the reduction in the use of children involved in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
This question was answered on 25th January 2018

DFID is working to tackle the root causes that enable child labour to flourish in the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo. To this end, DFID collaborates closely with other Government Departments and through a European Partnership for Responsible Minerals. We provide funding to the Carter Center in the DRC to improve transparency and governance of the sector. DFID DRC is also working with other international partners to consider how we might tackle the issues in the cobalt supply chain in future programme design.

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