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  Challenging abuses of power to protect human rights, the environment and secure the future of our planet
• Campaign / March 19, 2015

  • Responsible Minerals
  • Responsible Minerals

  Responsible minerals

  The global minerals trade has funded abuses and armed conflict for decades. Minerals that have bankrolled social and environmental harms still end up in our mobile phones, laptops and cars. Businesses must act responsibly by checking their supply chains.

  
• Briefing / Nov. 15, 2017

  • Responsible Minerals
  • D.R. Congo

  US Conflict Minerals Law

  Find out about how we're involved in the fight to uphold SEC Dodd-Frank 1502 regulations to ensure the trade of minerals does not fund brutal overseas conflict.

  
• April 13, 2015

  • Responsible Minerals

  Blood Diamond Director Ed Zwick supports conflict minerals campaign

  We have to let our leaders know we do understand the link between products we buy and the suffering of others, writes Hollywood director in The Guardian.

  
• Briefing / Nov. 3, 2016

  • Responsible Minerals
  • Central African Republic
  • D.R. Congo

  Conflict Minerals in Europe

  Find out how we're campaigning for regulation in Europe to break the links between the minerals trade, conflict and human rights abuses.

  
• Briefing / May 18, 2015

  More than 150 civil rights groups call on MEPs to strengthen the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

  Days before a landmark vote on European conflict minerals regulation, rights groups call on politicians to vote for binding legislation requiring European companies to ensure their mineral purchases do not fund conflict or human rights abuses overseas.

  
• May 18, 2015

  Conflict minerals: EU can save lives and boost profits

  EU Observer call from a former vice-president in the Rio Tinto Group and the head global business authentication at Walk Free, a British-based foundation

  
• Briefing / March 2, 2015

  • Responsible Minerals
  • D.R. Congo

  Conflict Minerals in Eastern Congo

  For 15 years, brutal conflict in the DRC has been funded by the illegal trade of conflict minerals. Find out how we're helping to tackle this trade.

  
• Briefing / Nov. 3, 2016

  • Responsible Minerals
  • European Union

  Les Minerais des Conflits en Europe

  Découvrez comment nous faisons campagne pour des mesures européennes visant à briser les liens entre le commerce des minerais, les guerres et les violations des droits de l’homme.

  
• Briefing / Jan. 26, 2015

  • Responsible Minerals
  • China
  • D.R. Congo
  • European Union

  La loi Dodd Frank

  Depuis vingt ans, l’est du Congo est le théâtre d’un violent conflit. Au cours de cette période, des millions de personnes ont perdu la vie inutilement. Même si la situation est complexe, il ressort que ce conflit a été en partie alimenté par le contrôle de ressources naturelles lucratives.