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In the town of Tshala in Lualaba, a province known for its mines that supply precious minerals to the world, a young man greets us at a house he’s building from the ground up. With a focused gaze and confident hands, Kalamba knows every corner of the home—every wall, room, and window—by heart. “This is the living ...
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UNICEF purchases goods and services to support goals and priorities for children and their families. We commit to the highest levels of integrity, transparency and accountability in our procurement activities, and we work with suppliers that comply with the highest ethical standards of conduct. , Tender calendars...
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RCS Global and UNICEF announce collaboration to tackle child rights infringements in artisanal mining
RCS Global Group and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF, ), have announced a technical cooperation to develop, pilot sites, and roll-out internationally, a toolkit to prevent and counteract child labor by mitigating wider child rights infringements in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) communities in the DRC. The collaboration brings together the industry leading technical expertise of RCS Global Group…
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DRC Minister of Mines Joins Cobalt Action Partnership
ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 23, 2020 –, The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), as the Partnership Lead of the Cobalt Action Partnership (CAP), today with CAP Implementing Partners announced that His Excellency Professor Willy Kitobo Samsoni, National Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is joining the CAP Steering Committee. This step demonstrates a…, About the Cobalt Action Partnership, The Cobalt Action Partnership is an in...
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Groundbreaking multi-stakeholder initiative to address child labour in DRC mining communities
KINSHASA, 16 November 2020, –The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the Global Battery Alliance (GBA), is aiming to raise US$ 21 million from public and private partners over the next three years to fund a series of initiatives aimed at addressing the root causes of child labour in mining communities. The Fund for the Prevention of Child Labour in Mining…
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Child protection
Challenge, Violence against children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is widespread in all settings, including families, schools, and communities. Nearly one in three women is affected by child marriage, often linked to early pregnancy. Indeed, one in four girls has begun her reproductive life before the ...