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Do No Harm: A Guide for Companies Sourcing from the DRC (Global Witness)
This paper argues that the due diligence that companies using minerals or metals originating from eastern DRC needs to undertake consists of: A conflict minerals policy Supply chain risk assessments,...
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What Conflict Minerals Legislation Is Actually Accomplishing in Congo...
David Aronson’s op-ed “How Congress Devastated Congo,” misses the critical link in eastern Congo: the continuing role of the minerals trade as a fuel for violence and a major source of revenue for...
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The Dodd Frank Act’s Section 1502 on Conflict Minerals (Global Witness)
For decades, the trade in conflict minerals has fueled human rights abuses and promoted insecurity in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
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Clearing the Confusion Over Conflict Minerals (The Guardian)
More than a year after the passage of a US law requiring companies to report on their use of “conflict minerals” there continues to be confusion about what conflict minerals are and what companies are...
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Conflict Minerals: Cleaning the Supply Chain AND Solving the Problem? (BSR)
[Nov. 2 Conference Session] Over the past two years, a few industries have become more proactive in addressing the challenge of using minerals that come from conflict mines, even as a broad range of...
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Conflict Minerals: An Assessment of the Dodd-Frank Act (Brookings)
Two important implementation issues offer insight into whether or not the law will be effective. Both issues—arrangements for compliance monitoring and enforcement machinery—have been delegated to...
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Europe Can Improve Upon US’s ‘Conflict Minerals’ Legislation: ICG (Christian...
A year ago, the European Parliament asked the Commission to develop a European version of the Dodd-Frank legislation, which establishes disclosure regulations relating to the use of conflict minerals...
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Solutions for Hope (Resolve)
In July of 2011 the Solutions for Hope Project was announced by Motorola Solutions Inc., a leading manufacturer of mission critical public safety and enterprise wide communications equipment and AVX...
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Latest Publications on Conflict Minerals (BSR)
Business for Social Responsibility covers the conflict minerals issue and periodically publishes new information on it here.
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Intel Publicly Sets Goal to Make Conflict-Free Chip by 2013 | Enough
http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/intel-publicly-sets-goal-make-conflict-free-chip-2013
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