The Biden administration announced this week that it would begin financing mining projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where mines often use child laborers.
. The Biden administration also released a report in October showing that child labor continues to take place in the mines.
About 40,000 children are believed to work in mines in southern DRC, according to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund."It's egregious that the Biden administration would enter into an MOU to mine critical minerals in the Congo, where we know they use child slave labor to mine these minerals and they have almost zero labor standards and almost zero environmental standards," Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn.
Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn., said he is planning on conducting oversight into the Biden administration's mining policies when he takes the top position on the House Natural Resources Energy and Mineral Subcommittee next year.
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