Name: Cobalto Rojo (in Spanish)
SKU: 55903962
Price: 1169.00 TWD
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Author: Siddharth Kara
ISBN: 9788412779790

Type

Physical Book

Author

Siddharth Kara

Publisher

Capitan Swing

Year

2024

Language

Spanish

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22x14 cm

ISBN13

9788412779790

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Cobalto Rojo (in Spanish)

Siddharth Kara (Author) · Capitan Swing · Paperback

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Synopsis "Cobalto Rojo (in Spanish)"

Cobalto rojo es la primera y desgarradora revelacion de la inmensa carga que la mineria del cobalto supone para la poblacion y el medio ambiente de la Republica Democratica del Congo, contada a traves de los testimonios de los propios congoleños. El activista e investigador Siddharth Kara se ha adentrado en el territorio del cobalto para documentar los testimonios de las personas que viven, trabajan y mueren por el cobalto. Para desvelar la verdad sobre las brutales practicas mineras, Kara investigo las zonas mineras controladas por las milicias, rastreo la cadena de suministro del cobalto extraido por niños, desde el pozo toxico hasta los gigantes tecnologicos de cara al consumidor, y recogio testimonios estremecedores de personas que soportan un inmenso sufrimiento e incluso mueren extrayendo cobalto. El cobalto es un componente esencial de todas las baterias recargables de iones de litio que se fabrican hoy en dia, las baterias que alimentan nuestros telefonos inteligentes, tabletas, ordenadores portatiles y vehiculos electricos. Aproximadamente el 75% del suministro mundial de cobalto se extrae en el Congo, a menudo por campesinos y niños en condiciones infrahumanas. Miles de millones de personas en el mundo no pueden desarrollar su vida cotidiana sin participar en u

Siddharth Kara

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Writer, researcher, screenwriter, and activist against modern slavery. He is a global professor at the British Academy, visiting scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, associate professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the University of Nottingham, and part of the Rights Lab’s Measurement and Geographies Programme. He is the author of three books on modern slavery: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009); Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012); and Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective (2017). Kara adapted his first book into a Hollywood movie, Trafficked, and is the author of the reports: Tainted Carpets: Slavery and Child Labor in India’s Hand-Made Carpet Sector (Harvard, 2014), and Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-Based Garment Sector (UC Berkeley, 2019). Over twenty-one years of research, traveling to more than fifty countries, he has mapped the global networks of human trafficking, explored the dangerous underworld of sex slaves victims of trafficking, and tracked the global supply chains of numerous basic products tainted by slavery and child labor. Kara advises various UN agencies and Governments on policy and legislation against slavery. He has appeared in media such as CNN, BBC, The Guardian, CNBC, or National Geographic.

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