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Latest News on Conflict Minerals – Victory in U.S. Congress

Friday, July 16, 2010

After writing about Congo’s conflict minerals and NGOs such as the Enough! Project‘s efforts to alert public opinion, good news recently came out of the United States Congress. From the Enough! Project’s website: Today, Congo activists, U.S. consumers, and the people of Congo won an incredible victory against long odds. Congress passed the Wall Street [...]

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What do PCs and Macs have in common? Blood Components.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Remember the Congo? No? I can’t really blame you, the problems plaguing Africa’s third biggest country have not – as far as I know – made headlines (at least in mainstream media) in a very long time. And yet, there’s been an ongoing conflict there since 1998 that has made, according to the latest reports [...]

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