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Article

29 Apr 2009

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Child Soldier Relief

New Report: Conflict Minerals in Cell Phones Perpetuating Use of Child soldiers

The GrassRoots Reconciliation Group, a non-profit dedicated to bringing together “local community members and ex-child soldiers of the LRA who have escaped from rebel captivity,” has co-written a report with the Enough Project linking the demand for cell phones and other electronic products made with conflict minerals and the ongoing conflict in the Congo...The strategy paper makes a number of recommendations: first, that industries trace and audit their supply-chains for these minerals, by tracing “3Ts and gold in their products down to the mine of origin”; that mines be properly secured; and that miners are supported and provided with additional economic alternatives; and reforming governance structures.