Sony Child Labor
Have you ever wondered if Sony uses child labor?
Sony used Chinese students to build the PS4, and use African kids to find the minerals for the products
Chinese students have been forced to assemble the ps4. They were suppose to glue parts of the console, which gave them credits. If the students refused they lost six credits, which give them a worse chance of graduation.
IT engineering students at China's Xi'an Institute of Technology claim they were made to glue parts of the console together in bad factory conditions in order to earn course credits.
Foxconn is the name of the company where the Chinese students worked.
In Africa, Sony and other major companies have failed to show that the minerals haven't been mined or found by children. It was found that in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, children age 7 have worked in dangerous conditions outside and they're working for Sony. The children working in the mines most likely will have long term health problems. There is around 40,000 children working in the mines, also because of the working conditions, there was right around 80 deaths.
Samsung and Apple, who were also involved, said that they didn't tolerate the child labor. Sony said that they were working with the companies that were using the kids to mine for finding issues on the working conditions and human rights.
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African Boy
This boy is one of the many of children that has been used to search for minerals for most of Sony's products.
Chinese students building the ps4
This is what it looked like inside of the factories, there was 100s of kids forced to assemble many PlayStations.
Foxconn
This is what Foxconn looked liked on the outside. It looks nice on the outside but it's not on the inside.
What can you do?
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