Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses

As high-consuming economies like the United States and Europe move to supplant fossil fuels with low-carbon technologies, a race is on to extract and process critical minerals for use in electric vehicles, wind turbines, transmission lines and solar panels.  That skyrocketing demand is already having a direct impact on the environment, communities and workers across … Continue reading Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses