http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/09/30/ashley.judd.africa/index.html?hpt=C2Snippet:
What links Kika's anguish and any one of us reading this? What connects us to her catastrophic suffering and that of so many other women and girls like her from Congo?
The ingredients in our electronics, that's what. The way they are being mined has everything to do with armed militia gang raping tens of thousands of civilians in what is grimly known as the worst place In the world to be a girl or woman.
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The chain of change begins with the consumer of the end products: laptops, cell phones, etc. The consumer demands change from companies and governments. Companies and governments lean on mineral to metal refiners. Refiners in turn press Central African exporters. Exporters subsequently -- for their economic survival -- demand transparency from suppliers right down to the mines, if that is what making money requires. It is a classic domino effect.Stopping flow of conflict minerals from Congo to your cell phone
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/03/congo.conflict.minerals/index.html
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"De omnibus dubitandum"
