Maat denounces the involvement of major companies in child labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Maat: Child labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by international companies ... a warning bell for the international community

Aqeel: The accident violates Article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the perpetrators must be held accountable.

Quality: International conventions alone are not enough, and the international community must shoulder its responsibility.

Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights denounces the recent disclosure of the involvement of a number of major international companies in various fields in child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including Microsoft, Tesla and Apple companies, which caused 14 victims among these children, including 6 They were killed due to the harsh working conditions.

Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights calls on the international community to take more stringent measures to eliminate child labor and strive to achieve the seventh goal of the eighth goal of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, which states: “Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labor and end contemporary slavery and human trafficking to ensure the prohibition and eradication of the worst. Forms of child labor, including their recruitment and use as soldiers, and the end of child labor in all its forms by 2025.

Ayman Akil, President of Maat Foundation stated that the involvement of these companies in child labor is contrary to paragraph 1 of Article 32 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child concerning the protection of children from economic exploitation. And that this incident raises the alarm bell for the exacerbation of the phenomenon of child labor, at a time when the world is seeking to eradicate this phenomenon, and “Aqeel” demanded that this accident not go unnoticed, and that the perpetrators of this humanitarian disaster must be held accountable.

While Abdul Latif Judeh, a researcher at the Organization's African Affairs Unit, said that more compulsory measures must be taken to eliminate this phenomenon on the African continent, as international conventions do not have to be written ink, and that international mechanisms must be activated that in turn preserve the right of individuals in general. And children in particular, and on top of these mechanisms that must be activated and established by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, which stipulates in its fifteenth article regarding the non-employment of children in hazardous work.

It is worth noting that Africa comes within the interest of the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights, as it is a member of the General Assembly in the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union, as well as the North Africa region coordinator in the group of major African NGOs of the high-level political forum at the United Nations.

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