Conflict Resource

When Resources Minister Shane Jones recently unveiled his draft strategy for mineral mining, it was quickly criticized by the Labor opposition as "taking New Zealand backwards." One environmental group even called it a "love letter to mining companies."

How traceability schemes have wound up hurting Congo's people.

Lawyers representing DRC allege Apple's products contain illegally exported minerals, despite tech company's claims of environmental and social responsibility

They included a list of questions challenging Apple to show how it monitors its supply chains in a region where more than 100 armed rebel groups operate, some of whom have been accused of carrying out mass killings of civilians.

Here's how to buy ethical tech and keep conflict minerals in the ground

It's time for our eighth annual look at the games industry's conflict minerals sourcing practices and what companies ar…

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The birds no longer sing. The cows die. And if the people in this northern Myanmar forest complain, they too face the threat of death from militias. This forest is

Apple's subsidiaries in France and Belgium have had criminal complaints filed against them by the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is accusing...

Former GamesIndustry.biz writer Brendan Sinclair, now at Unlosing Writer, began writing about conflict minerals in video games almost a decade ago, after he saw that Activision Blizzard...

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Tech firms operating in Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel are falling "woefully short" of their human rights responsibilities amid escalating devastation in Gaza, says Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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The birds no longer sing, and the herbs no longer grow. The fish no longer swim in rivers that have turned a murky brown. The animals do not roam, and the cows are sometimes found dead. The people in this northern Myanmar forest have lost a way of life that goes back generations.

Corscale will use ZincFive nickel-zinc battery technology at its Gainesville Crossing Data Campus in Northern Virginia and standardize the technology across the company's data center portfolio

There is a good chance that inside your device is some metal dug up in a mine controlled by rebels.

OAKLAND, California, USA, Jan 30 (IPS) - The fresh offensive by the M23 rebels and Rwanda forces in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) coincides with the first anniversary of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the European Union (EU) and Rwanda to cooperate on the supply of "critical minerals."

Lawyers claim that Apple uses 3T minerals stolen from Congo and laundered through international supply chains.