How Cell Phones Both Help and Hurt Women Abroad

Slate reports that metals like tungsten which are used in most electronic products both help and harm women in foreign countries.

The market news is quoted as saying,

As a recent article on The Atlantic’s website reports, your cell phone is probably co-financing rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The same goes for pretty much any electronic device in your household, since nearly all of them–from your old TV to your fancy new iPhone–are part of a massive supply chain of what are known as “the 3 Ts”: tin, tungsten, and tantalum.

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