Publisher: ENOUGH Project
Publication Date: April 24, 2009
Copyright: 2009
Publisher Website: http://www.enoughproject.org/
Language: en
Category: Congo-Kinshasa, Conflict, Peace and Security, Human Rights, Mining, Trade, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, Arms and Military Affairs
The Enough Project is sounding the alarm. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, scene of the deadliest conflict since World War II, remains the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman or a girl—in significant part because of the international demand for electronic products that requires minerals found in the eastern Congo. While eastern Congo is a complex crisis—fueled by tensions over land, rights, identity, regional power struggles, and the fundamental weaknesses of Congo as a state—the trade in conflict minerals remains one of the key drivers of the conflict. The same armed groups that reap enormous profits from the mineral trade in eastern Congo regularly commit conscience-shocking atrocities as they jockey to control the region’s most valuable mines, transportation routes and opportunities to impose extortionary ‘taxes’ on those involved in this trade.
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