The largest worldwide production of Cobalt brings environmental and water pollution, but also child and forced labour, smuggling of materials, fiscal and tax evasion, violence on activists and human rights defenders

Summary of the conflict: The company Katanga Mining Ltd. operates a copper-cobalt project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This corporation is a subsidiary of Glencore, and is owned by the latter for a stake of 75%. Katanga Mining also holds a 75% stake in two joint ventures with Gécamines, a state-owned mining company in the DRC: Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) and DRC Copper and Cobalt Project (DCP). Overall, Glencore has in the DRC most of its worldwide production of Cobalt. The impacts of the company’s activities span from air and environmental pollution to water pollution, but also child and forced labour, smuggling of materials, fiscal and tax evasion, violence on activists and human rights defenders...