As you no doubt know we at London Mining, and specifically the Stop Mad Mining project, have been campaigning on the European Union’s plans for regulating conflict minerals. The aim is to tackle how the extraction and trade of raw materials contained in our...
London Mining Network has been campaigning on the issue of the European Union’s internal negotiations over a proposed law to ensure specific minerals entering the EU have been sourced responsibly, and without funding conflict and human rights abuses (see:...
The following is an opinion piece, written by Abbot Léonard Santedi, the Secretary General of the Bishops Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo, commenting on the current state of negotiations with in the European Union about conflict minerals. CIDSE, the...
In a surprise move, the European Parliament recently voted to require all EU importers of four specific minerals to be certified to ensure they do not fuel conflicts and human rights abuses. MEPs backed a law covering not just European importers that sourced minerals...
Ahead of a landmark vote on a new conflict minerals law to be held in the European Parliament on 20 May 2015, 157 civil society organisations urgently call on Members of the European Parliament to vote for a law which will finally tackle the trade in conflict minerals...