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Apple: time to make a conflict-free iPhone | Delly Mawazo Sesete | Technology | The Gua... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...time-make-conflict-free-iphone

cobalt mining in dominican republic of congo

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  • deadly conflict has been raging for over 15 years.
    • Kamryn T
      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      If this had been a conflict for such a while know why are people just now acting on it?
  • These minerals are part of your daily life.
  • They keep your computer running so you can surf the internet. They save your high score on your Playstation. They make your cell phone vibrate when someone calls you.
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  • While minerals from the Congo have enriched your life, they have often brought violence, rape and instability to my home country
  • I witnessed the deadly chemicals dumped into the local environment. I saw the use of rape as a weapon. And despite receiving multiple death threats for my work, I've continued to call for peace, development and dignity in Congo's minerals trade.
  • . Apple has been an industry leader in both supply chain management and making corporate social responsibility a priority.
    • Kamryn T
      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      Does apple know that they are buying cobalt mined from child slaves?
  • irst company to create a Congo conflict-free phone, using minerals from Congo that further stability and economic development and don't use slave labor or fund mass atrocities.
Kamryn T

Plight of African child slaves forced into mines - for our mobile phones | Internationa... - 1 views

www.laborrights.org/...forced-mines-our-mobile-phones

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  • African children are enslaved in lethal mines to power our love affair with the mobile phon
  • The child miners of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) risk death to dig for a highly dangerous ore used in mobiles, laptops and games consoles.
  • Coltan smuggling is big business throughout Africa and is a major source of income for warring militias
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  • The valuable ore is sold for £300 a kilo but the young slaves risking death to mine it get just £1.50 a week.
  • s also blamed for birth defects in the areaswhere it is mined.
    • Kamryn T
      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      Do Pregnant Women have to mine for cobalt as well that leads to the birth defects?
  • They die because the military abuse and murder them to hush their crimes."
  • "Children are essential to the process because they can get into smaller holes dug in the river beds."
  • 5000 and 6000 child slaves are forced to work in the mines.
  • "I wonder how many times someone looks at their laptop or their cell phone and thinks, 'there is coltan mined by children in this product'.
    • Kamryn T
      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      This really makes you think about how important cobalt is.
  • "The end users - the phone and computer companies - say they don't take anything from Congo but there are ways around that for the militia and the people selling it.
  • Over 80 per cent of all coltan is mined from DRC, one of the world's poorest countries.
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      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      if its is so poor than why did the article originally say that cobalt is one of the main exports?    -does the DRC get the money that they make from the cobalt?
  • More than four million children in Congo are not in school and a third of those under the age of five are underweight. Life expectancy is only 44 years and 80 per cent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. The discovery of such a valuable resouce has led neighbouring states to plunder coltan from within Congo's borders.
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      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      BLUE HIGHLIGHT: STATISTICS
  • Their soldiers stole it from Congo by forcing women and children to mine it.
  • Coltan's journey from Congo to your mobile is a complicated one involving militias, arms dealers and finally big business in the west.
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      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      PEOPLE GO THROUGH ALOT TO MAKE PHONES
  • Compaq, Dell, IBM, Nokia and Siemens.
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      Kamryn T on 15 Jan 16
       
      STATISTICS
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