Research In Motion (now BlackBerry)

IPC Conflict Minerals Seminar Proceedings Now Available: Explains SEC Regulation and Provides Compliance Assistance

Author: IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries

To help industry professionals navigate conflict minerals compliance, IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries is offering the proceedings from its fall seminars, featuring multimedia presentations about the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

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• Related in-depth areas: Implementation of US Dodd-Frank Act rule on conflict minerals: Commentaries, guidance, company actions Latest news on conflict & peace Short videos & news items
• Related companies: Advanced Micro Devices BlackBerry Covington & Burling Freescale Semiconductor HP (Hewlett-Packard) Kemet Motorola Solutions Research In Motion (now BlackBerry)

Company responses re lawsuit against SEC over final rule accompanying section 1502 of Dodd-Frank Act

Author: compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

On 22 August 2012 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued the final rule accompanying Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act...The rule requires companies using gold, tin, tungsten and tantalum to make efforts to determine if those materials...

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• Related stories: USA: Companies respond to lawsuit against SEC over final rule accompanying section 1502 of Dodd-Frank Act
• Related companies: Acer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) AT&T Boeing Dell Ford General Electric (GE) Honda Honeywell HP (Hewlett-Packard) Intel John Deere (Deere & Co) Kemet Kennametal Microsoft Motorola Solutions Northrop Grumman Panasonic Research In Motion (now BlackBerry) Rockwell Automation Rockwell Collins Thermo Fisher Scientific Xerox

Research In Motion (now BlackBerry) did not respond to: Global Witness calls on electronics companies to issue public statements outlining their position on lawsuit filed by business associations against rules on "conflict minerals."

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• Related stories: USA: Companies respond to lawsuit against SEC over final rule accompanying section 1502 of Dodd-Frank Act
• This is a non response from the following companies: Research In Motion (now BlackBerry)

Taking Conflict Out of Consumer Gadgets: Company Rankings on Conflict Minerals 2012

Author: Sasha Lezhnev & Alexandra Hellmuth, Enough Project

Leading electronics companies are making progress in eliminating conflict minerals from their supply chains, but still cannot label their products as being conflict free...Intel, Motorola..., HP, and Apple...have developed conflict minerals programs.....

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• Related stories: Some electronics companies are eliminating conflict minerals from supply chains, but others show no progress, Enough Project
• Related in-depth areas: Latest news on conflict & peace
• Related companies: Acer Advanced Micro Devices Apple AT&T Boeing Bosch Canon Dell General Electric Google (part of Alphabet) HP (Hewlett-Packard) HTC IBM Intel Lenovo LG Electronics (part of LG Corp.) Lockheed Martin Microsoft Mitsubishi Group Motorola Mobility (part of Lenovo) Motorola Solutions Nikon (part of Mitsubishi Group) Nintendo Nokia Northrop Grumman Panasonic Research In Motion (now BlackBerry) Royal Philips Electronics Samsung SanDisk Sharp Signet Jewelers Sony Sprint Telefónica Toshiba United Technologies Verizon

[video] Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: Conflict Minerals webinar

Author: Maplecroft & UN Global Compact

[On August 3, 2012, the UN Global Compact and Maplecroft co-hosted the Conflict Minerals webinar, with the support of the GE Foundation. The webinar examined the risks posed by conflict minerals to multi-national corporations and featured speakers...

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• Related in-depth areas: Latest news on conflict & peace
• Related companies: Advanced Micro Devices AMC Group Apple AVX Bosch Canon De Beers (part of Anglo American) Dell Flextronics Foxconn (part of Hon Hai) General Electric Gold Fields Google (part of Alphabet) Hon Hai HP (Hewlett-Packard) Intel Kemet Motorola Mobility (part of Lenovo) Motorola Solutions Nintendo Nokia Panasonic Research In Motion (now BlackBerry) SanDisk Sharp Thailand Smelting and Refining (part of AMC Group) Toshiba Traxys

Response by Research In Motion (now BlackBerry): Global Witness, Enough Project & others call on electronics & automotive firms to make public statements against US Chamber of Commerce position on conflict minerals.

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• This is a response from the following companies: Research In Motion (now BlackBerry)

Response by Research In Motion (now BlackBerry): Global Witness, Enough Project & others call on electronics & automotive firms to make public statements against US Chamber of Commerce position on conflict minerals.

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• This is a response from the following companies: Research In Motion (now BlackBerry)

Responses re lobbying over Dodd Frank 1502 on conflict minerals

Author: compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

In May 2012…Global Witness [published]… “Are electronics companies trying to have it both ways on conflict minerals legislation?”…allege[ing] that…the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) “have been seeking to...

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• Related in-depth areas: Latest news on conflict & peace Lobbying "seeking to undermine" Dodd-Frank conflict minerals legislation Supply chain
• Related companies: Acer AT&T Canon Dell Ford General Electric Google (part of Alphabet) HP (Hewlett-Packard) IBM Intel Microsoft Motorola Motorola Mobility (part of Lenovo) Motorola Solutions Panasonic Research In Motion (now BlackBerry) Verizon Xerox