This caught my eye because this seems to be a big issue in Africa.
It seems that Congo is actually being hurt due to the minerals conflict. This
site is actually stating what is being done. This is a quote from the
site:
"We are working now at 20 percent of normal capacity. We've
lost a lot of money..... Those who did that feeling that they helped Congo,
they didn’t help Congo at all. It harmed thousands and thousands of
Congolese."
This quote caught my eye because it seems to me that people say
they are helping; when it seems all that they are doing is hurting. Congo is
not very developed. However, they do have tons of mineral reserves that have
not be touched. However, the eastern part of the country has tantalum,
tungsten, and tin, which are handled by hand and which then are shipped worldwide
for manufacturing electronic devices.
Advocacy groups in both the US and Europe has been going to
companies; more specific technology companies to source where the minerals come
from to use in their products. This led to the passing of section 1502 of the
Dodd-Frank Act in 2010. This requires companies to track where the minerals
they use come from. One long term consequence of this is that the Congolese
people are not being paid for the work that they have done, and this act did not
help the people of the Congo.
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