Report highlights conflict minerals in electronics

The Globe and Mail.com reports that the Enough project, an advocacy group concentrated on conflict minerals coming out of Sudan and the DRC,   has released a report ranking technology firms’ tracing of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold used to produce their products.

The story is quoted as saying:

But he stressed that the firms, after significant pressure from advocacy groups and consumers, have made real progress on concrete measures to ensure due diligence in complicated international supply chains. This punctures the idea that the situation in the Congo was simply too chaotic for any sort of monitoring or ethical mining, Mr. Sullivan added.

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