Thursday, January 23, 2014
Conflict-Free DRC
John Lasker writes about how Wall Street reform can save lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As a major supplier of minerals used in luxury goods like cell phones and big screen TVs, DRC laborers have worked under brutal, life-threatening conditions. Like the campaign against blood diamonds, the campaign for conflict-free minerals is opposed by Wall Street, but then, we already figured that out.
