Sentence examples for illegal minerals from inspiring English sources

Due to the nature of supply chains, and as companies don't buy directly from mines but from smelters, there is always the risk that illegal minerals could be smuggled in.

The United Nations report lays bare exactly how various rebel groups finance their brutality, tracing the flow of illegal minerals from the lush green mountainsides of Congo, formerly Zaire, to Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda, and eventually to markets in Europe or smelters in the Far East.

They should prosecute the greedy people, wherever they come from, who benefit from illegal minerals".

In his address at the UN compound in Nairobi, he called for action against poaching and illegal mineral exploitation in Africa and called for "a new energy system" reducing fossil fuels to the minimum and a re-think "of the current model of development".

Burundi has also received significant U.S. military support and high-ranking officers in its army have recently been linked to the illegal mineral trade, according to a report by the environmental watchdog group Global Witness.

These measures focused on stopping the illegal trade of minerals but did nothing to destroy the actual power base of armed groups.

The discussions, at a regional university in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, will address the presence of local and foreign militias in the region, border controls, illegal trafficking in minerals and weapons proliferation.

The document points to the illegal export of minerals in return for cash and weapons that are channeled to rebel groups, which United Nations peacekeepers are mandated by the Security Council to help dismantle.

Also, the international community has failed to stop the illegal trade in minerals, which is funding this most deadly war since World War II.

Nokia has acknowledged the issue of illegal trading of conflict minerals and listed the steps it is taking to avoid supporting these transactions: We prohibit human rights abuses associated with the extraction, transport or trade of minerals.

The collapse of commercial agriculture, once the largest employer, has pushed thousands of people into illegal mining with the minerals being sold to black market middlemen and smuggled to countries where prices are higher.