Exposing the Hidden Cost of Innovation at HPE Discover 2024 At the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Discovery Summit in June 2024 in Las Vegas, the Human Thread Foundation, through founder and humanitarian photographer, Lisa Kristine brought to light an often-overlooked reality: the human cost of innovation. In an industry that celebrates progress, Kristine’s powerful imagery [...]
Getty Images Demand for electric vehicles is fueling a rise in child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, experts said this week, urging companies to take action as the industry expands. Cobalt is a key component in batteries for electric cars, phones and laptops, and Congo provides more than [...]
Bottles of Coca-Cola Co. soda is displayed for sale. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Forced labor and workers' rights violations are a pernicious problem worldwide. The 2017 "Global Estimates of Modern Slavery" report shows that an estimated 25 million people are being subjected to forced labor , with the majority of this activity taking place in the [...]
Image Source: ILO More than 35,000 people were rescued from slave labour in Brazil over the past 15 years, but over 600 of them ended up in similar conditions at least a second time. This means that 1.73 per cent of the 35,341 workers rescued from slavery in the country between 2003 and 2017 ended [...]
