332 | How the Congo's Cobalt Fuels Electric Vehicles, Batteries, and Modern-Day Slavery with Siddharth Kara
The Realignment
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Coercing Labor in the Congo
International law tends to recognize that coercion can take many forms. It doesn't have to be the overt, I will beat you or stab you or shoot you if you don't do this. There's coercion and duress forces of extreme poverty, of displacement, of lack of alternative. And when someone up the chain is relying on that reality, to avail of the products of that labor, in the case of the Congo, cobalt, that slavery, that slavery.
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