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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."
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...
Aug 6, 2010 · Siddharth Kara fights bonded labor, forced labor, and human trafficking with what he says are the most effective weapons against them: rigorous scientific research and analysis.
Oct 12, 2017 · Siddharth Kara is the director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Harvard Kennedy School, where he is also an adjunct lecturer and teaches a course on human trafficking.
Siddharth Kara (Sociology and Social Policy) is part of the Rights Lab's Measurement and Geographies Programme and is a British Academy Global Professor (2020-2024). He was one of only 10 academics globally to receive the prestigious BA Global Professorship in 2020.
Dec 21, 2022 · Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher and activist on modern slavery. Over the past two decades, Kara has conducted ground research in more than 50 countries to personally document the cases of several thousand slaves and child laborers.
May 10, 2024 · Siddharth Kara, Rights Lab Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, has been named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes. His groundbreaking work, 'Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives,' received recognition in the General Nonfiction category.
Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, screenwriter, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor (2020-2024) based at Nottingham University, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.
