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Trade in these minerals can fund armed groups and fuel human rights abuses, in particular for children.
The Congo Conflict Minerals Act calls on the United States to cease activities that fund armed groups and contribute to human rights violations.
Right now, the conflict-free movement in the United States is growing, as more and more people learn about the conflict in Congo and demand that the companies they buy from proactively work to ensure their minerals supply chain from Congo doesn't fund armed groups.
Historically gold, together with other minerals and high-value natural resources, has helped fund armed conflict in these countries.
Terrorist groups in northern Mali are among those poaching the region's shrinking herd of desert elephants, according to the United Nations, part of a global wildlife trafficking trade that helps fund armed groups and fuel conflict.
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Also deserving of attention and pressure are those governments, commercial entities, and people who enable the commission of those crimes, whether through helping to fund, arm, or otherwise support the perpetrators.
Pakistani extremists are funded, armed and trained.
Though U.S. funding armed roughly 10,000 soldiers to support the TFG, as many as 8,000 of those troops deserted.
More recently, the control of natural resources has funded armed campaigns by militias ranging from the Farc in Colombia to Seleka in the Central African Republic.
Unless these investors lower their expectations, they have little choice but to bet that more rational conditions will return and that hedge funds armed with brains, flexibility and, they hope, judicious leverage will again deliver double-digit returns.
President Uhuru Kenyatta funded, armed and mobilised the feared Mungiki militia responsible for violence in the aftermath of Kenya's 2007 elections, which left more than 1,000 people dead, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said.
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