War In The Congo

Your phone is fueling a war in the Congos. A conflict dubbed the Africa's world war has been raging since 1996 in the wake of the Rwandan genocide. After the genocide more than two million Hutus fled to The Congo afraid of prosecution from the new Tusis government. In 1996 Uganda and Rwanda invaded the Congo on claims of rooting out out Hutsu war criminal, and a war then began. The war was settled but not ended there are still rebel forces all over the Congoo that the government can't deal with. Working condition in the mines are appalling, there is little to no regulation so child labor is rampant, and conflict minerals fuel the rebel operations.
The mines of the DMRC are some of the worst in the world. One of the people that suffer the
After the Rwandan genocide many of the culprits fled to the jungles of the Congo. They hid there from the new Tutsi led Rwandan government and some continued to kill Tutsi. They used mines that they took over to found their operation. In 2010 president Barack Obama passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act in response to the Great Recession. Later that year congress passed the Section 1520 rule according to the U.S. Security and Exchange Commision, congress passed the passed the Section 1502 rule because, “ of concerns that the exploitation and trade of theses metals by armed groups was helping to finance conflict in the the Democratic Republic of Congo's and is contributing to an emergency humanitarian crisis.” What the Dodd-Frank act did was impose report requirements on companies using conflict minerals the Section 1520 rule expanded on it. According to the International Business Times Minerals extracted from places like the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, “has been linked to to armed groups that regularly commit mass atrocities, including rape and murder.” The thing is It's not just Hutu rebels that kill people it's the government and rebels fighting against the government that commit these atrocities. The International Business Times said, “All sides of the conflict have been accused of attacking communities in close proximity to mined and
According to Enough if, “Electronic companies can pressure their suppliers and trace the minerals they use to ensure they do not originate from mines that are financing armed groups and criminal interest.” If all companies would take a little more responsibility conflict minerals wouldn't be such a big threat. It's not just companies that need to take actions though, so do governments. Like I talked about before Congress enacted Section 1502 of the Act according to the International Business Times the act requires “ U.S. companies to disclose their use of “conflict minerals” if they were “necessary to the function or production of products” manufactured by those companies.” That was a huge step taken by the U.S. government to help stifle the growth of conflict minerals. Another big step that the U.S. government is a new legislation according to the New York Times. “ The United States took a positive step in 2010, introducing legislation to compel listed companies that use tantalum, tin, gold, or tungsten in their products or products to investigate the supply chain.” All those metals listed are major conflict metals and by compelling companies to look at where they are getting their minerals then they may think twice before using