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any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country.
The UN has made it clear that companies have a responsibility to make sure they are not financing conflict or human rights abuses, and multinational bodies such as the OECD have developed guidance to help them.
"Some of our member companies are seven layers or more apart from these mines in the DRC where we're concerned that the trade in minerals is financing conflict".
He is also the Co-Founder of The Sentry, a new investigative initiative focused on dismantling the networks financing conflict and atrocities.
Besides contributing to social and environmental abuses, in some instances the minerals and metals found in your smartphone have been associated with financing conflict in the African Great Lakes region.
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Since then UDA leaders have secured £1.2m over three years from the British government to finance "conflict transformation".
In its founding document "conflict diamonds" are described as "rough diamonds used by rebel movements or their allies to finance conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments".
The American diamond industry, the International Diamond Manufacturers Association and the world's major jewelry organizations are working to ensure that diamonds are not used to finance conflict.
But as the deliberations dragged on, Zimbabwe warned on Wednesday that it might export its diamonds without the approval of the United Nations-backed Kimberley Process, which seeks to stop the trade in diamonds that finance conflict.
In theory, said Alex Yearsley, a British campaigner, the Kimberley Process's definition of "conflict diamonds" as "rough diamonds used by rebel movements or their allies to finance conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments" does not apply to Congo's lawlessness.
This regulation came as a result of concerns that the exploitation and trade of conflict minerals by armed groups was helping to finance conflict in the DRC region and contributing to its emergency humanitarian crisis.
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