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Siddharth Kara is a NY Times Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is also a British Academy Global Professor and an associate professor at the University of Nottingham. He is best known for his book " Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives " (2023).
Feb 1, 2023 · Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."
- Terry Gross
Jan 23, 2023 · Siddharth Kara’s “Cobalt Red” takes a deep dive into the horrors of mining the valuable mineral — and the many who benefit from others’ suffering.
Feb 16, 2023 · To Siddharth Kara, an owner’s failure to upgrade is no laughing matter; it’s a small but important act of environmental and humanitarian heroism. Why? Because the fewer...
Siddharth Kara is a British Academy Global Professor and an expert on modern slavery and human trafficking. He studies slavery and child labour in cobalt mining in the Congo and advises UN agencies and governments on anti-slavery policy.
Oct 12, 2017 · Siddharth Kara is a Harvard Kennedy School lecturer and author of "Modern Slavery", a book that analyzes the economic and social factors that enable human trafficking. He also wrote and produced "Trafficked", a Hollywood film based on his first book, which exposes the reality of sex trafficking.
Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt.
