According to the head of commodities trader Trafigura, unregulated cobalt mining cannot be "wished away," the Financial Times reported last month.

Study: Conflict gold from Africa may be in U.S. markets, passing through major companies

Major electronics and electric vehicle companies are still not doing enough to stop human rights abuses entering their cobalt supply chains, almost two years after an Amnesty International investigation exposed how batteries used in their products could be linked to child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the organization said...