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20.05.2011What are conflict minerals? In essence this is the issue made famous in the movie Blood Diamond . In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and surrounding region, the profits from mining mineral resources
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22-08-2011Like the activists who lobbied for the legislation, Dodd-Frank assumes that minerals such as gold, wolframite, coltan and tin, which are extracted from areas under the control of armed groups, drive the conflict, and therefore, curbing the trade would bring peace to the region. Organizations like Global Witness, the Enough Project and its
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03.11.2011About 82 tonnes of smuggled minerals seized by Rwandan police is handed back to DR Congo in a sign of improved relations between the two neighbours.
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27.04.2011The conflict in Congo has left millions homeless, fleeing from their villages after
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17-04-2011A gold miner scoops mud while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine in the Kilomoto concession near the village of Kobu, 100 km (62 miles) from Bunia in north-eastern Congo, (File) Several years
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19.12.2009The New Blood Diamonds Diamonds from African countries have been funding guerrilla wars for decades. But they're not the only precious gems with blood on their hands. Here are four more
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We recently traveled together to Congo, where the deadliest war in the world is occurring. During the trip, Ryan made this video, Raise Hope for Congo.
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26.07.2010Some UK companies, known to have been trading in minerals sourced from the eastern DR Congo, should have been referred to the UN sanctions committee in 2008 and 2009, the campaigners said.
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Of these minerals, a handful—most notably the "three Ts" (tin, tantalum, and tungsten) and gold—have in recent years achieved notoriety as "conflict minerals.". That's because many of these minerals originate in the
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27.04.2011The conflict in Congo has left millions homeless, fleeing from their villages after they have been burnt to the ground or looted by armed groups. In a camp for internally displaced people, we met Mapendo, a young woman who survived an attack on her village in which members of an armed militia went door to door raping women and killing men.
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Republic of the Congo (DRC). The main conflict minerals are the so-called the "3TGs": ores of tantalum and niobium, tin, tungsten, and gold, and their derivatives. Diverse international efforts to break the link between mineral commerce and conflict in central Africa have been proposed or are under way. Key initiatives include government and industry-led mineral tracking and
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Conflict Minerals in the Congo: Blood Minerals and Africa's Under-reported First World War 3 Stanley first traveled down the Congo River and discovered the riches of the land in 1871.2 When the news of it vast resources reached Europe, King Leopold II of Belgium established
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11.10.2011Minerals from mines under the control of warring factions have been making their way into our mobiles for years. The UN raised the issue a decade ago. But even though it involves more of us than,
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19.01.2016Meanwhile, the developed world receives its sacks of cassiterite, coltan, gold, diamonds, uranium, tungsten and manganese cheaply and promptly. Who then, other than the Congolese themselves,
Get Price WhatsApp12-07-2021Fast Facts Armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries reportedly exploit the minerals tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold to finance conflict in the region. The Securities and Exchange Commission requires companies to report on the origin of these conflict minerals used in their products.
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01-04-2009The principal conflict minerals are: Tin (produced from cassiterite) – used inside your cell phone and all electronic products as a solder on circuit boards. The biggest use of tin worldwide is in electronic
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Peter Eichstaedt is a veteran journalist who has reported from locations worldwide, including Afghanistan, Albania, Somalia, the Sudans, Uganda, Kenya, eastern DR Congo, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus. He is the author of The Dangerous Divide, winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Political/Current Affairs Book; Above the Din of War; Pirate State;
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20.05.2015International actors exerted increasing pressure on the Congolese government (Cuvelier Reference Cuvelier and Hilhorst 2013: 132), for they viewed the trading and taxation of minerals by non-state armed groups and the military as perpetuating conflict in its eastern provinces (for a critique on this focus on 'conflict minerals' see Autesserre Reference
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27.03.2009NEW YORK (Fortune) -- First there were blood diamonds, the gems that
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03.08.2010Now the Obama administration must come through and partner with the Congolese government to help create a process for conflict minerals that builds on the lessons of the process that excluded
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A new EU law to stem the trade in conflict minerals. Therefore, the EU passed a new regulation in May 2017 to stop: global and EU smelters and refiners from using conflict minerals, and; mine workers from being abused. The law also supports the development of local communities. It requires EU companies to ensure they import these minerals and
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21.12.2011Global Witness has carried out its own investigations, including supply chain mapping, and reports that the trade in conflict minerals is fueling land-grabs and displacements in eastern Kivu Province of DRC, where 'human rights abuses, including gender-based violence such as rape and sexual slavery have reached catastrophic proportions.'
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for example, supplies more than 63 per cent of the world's cobalt. The mining of cobalt in the DRC has so often been connected to violence that the mineral has been dubbed the
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11-10-2021The DRC was the third largest producer of industrial diamonds in 2019, contributing about 21 percent of global production. The country boasts some of the highest quality copper reserves globally, with some of the mines estimated to contain grades above 3 percent, significantly higher than the global average of 0.6 - 0.8 percent.
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Gold miners form a human chain while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine near Kobu, Congo, in 2009. Civil conflict in Congo has been driven for more than a decade by the struggle for
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19.09.2016Natural resource and environmental conflicts have long been issues confronting human societies. This case-based examination of a wide range of natural resource disputes exposes readers to many contemporary examples that offer reasons for both hope and concern.The Rwandan genocide, the Sudanese civil war, and perpetual instability in the
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05-10-2013Conflict minerals from the Congo to your cellphone. Oct 5, 2013 1:00 PM EDT. Transcript. National Geographic photographer Marcus Bleasdale finds beauty in trauma. His work in the Congo is featured
Get Price WhatsApp25.07.2022Republic of Congo. Sierra Leone. At the height of the wars, it was estimated that about 4% of the world's diamonds were from conflict areas. Today, efforts have been put in place to stop the trade of conflict
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However, this conflict has evolved into a conflict of profit that is largely fueled by the mineral rich mines in the eastern part of the country. The DRC is one of the richest places in the world in terms of natural resources.
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The flow of Conflict Diamonds has originated mainly from Sierra Leone, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and Ivory Coast. The United Nations and other groups are working to block the entry of
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21.09.2020In 2019, an estimated 1.1 tonnes of gold was smuggled out of Ituri, one of the gold producing provinces, denying the government some $1.8 million in taxes according to a report by the UN Group of Experts on
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The movie Blood Diamond traces the path of a large pink diamond found in Sierra Leone in the 1990s by a fisherman working as a slave in a rebel-controlled diamond mine. That diamond changed and ended many lives, and the story
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Of these minerals, a handful—most notably the "three Ts" (tin, tantalum, and tungsten) and gold—have in recent years achieved notoriety as "conflict minerals.". That's because many of these minerals originate in
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As of 2010, the conflict resource fueling the world's deadliest war is gold in the Congo. Gold bars are less traceable than diamonds, and gold is abundant in the Kivu conflict region. In any case, no jewellery industry standard exists for verifying gold origination, as it does for diamonds (though jewelers' total outlay on gold is five times that on diamonds).
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Timed at: 2 :28 Diamonds are one of the more well known conflict minerals. Conflict minerals are defined as minerals mined in conditions of armed conflict and human rights abuse,
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06-12-20026 - Tamm, Ingrid J. Diamonds in Peace and War: Severing the Conflict-Diamond Connection. Bibliography: Campbell, Greg. Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones. New York: Westview Press, 2003. Hirsch, John L. Sierra Leone: Diamonds and the Struggle for Democracy. Boulder: Lynne Rienner,
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27.03.2009A new pressure-group campaign and pending legislation in Congress aim to
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The DR Congo has about 10% of the world's copper, 30% of the world's diamond, 70% of the world's coltan (short for columbite–tantalite and known industrially as tantalite) and over 50% of the world's cobalt. In other words,
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12.07.2022Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have halted all raw minerals' exports from the country.Reports from Kinshasa reveal that the DRC government has taken the stance to curb the massive exploitation of the country's rather abundant mineral
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The problem, according to Maurice Carney, executive director of Friends of the Congo, is that narrow advocacy around conflict minerals has promoted a convoluted and largely ineffective approach to peace and elided the
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