DR Congo conflict: Mobile phones, coltan and the fighting
The US’ Dodd-Frank Act passed in 2010, and a similar piece of EU legislation, is aimed at ensuring that companies purchasing tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold – so-called “conflict minerals” – are not inadvertently funding violence. But Itsci has come under some criticism. Ken Matthysen, a security and resource management expert with independent research group […]
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