Comments on: What are conflict resources?

By: Malaria break « a peace of conflict

Malaria break « a peace of conflict — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:20:28 +0000

[...] many, many on my most researched topic– conflict resources specifically those in the DRC (including that on corporate accountability, corporate rule, or [...]

By: Welcome to Cote D’Ivoire. « a peace of conflict

Welcome to Cote D’Ivoire. « a peace of conflict — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:18:54 +0000

[...] Conflict resources encompass far more than just minerals and metals that receive the bulk of media attention. Logging supports violent activities all over the globe, as do resources such as cocoa and coffee. Child slavery and child labour is a major problem of the cocoa trade in Cote D’Ivoire. An estimated 130,000 (some say as high as 200,000) children work in cocoa production in the country (6% under the age of 10, 40% between the ages 10 and 14 and 54% between the ages of 15 and 17), often handling pesticides without protective equipment, using machetes and transporting excessively heavy loads. Approximately 12,000 of these children are thought to be trafficked and essentially enslaved. A voluntary certification process was created to help alleviate this problem, but lost its funding and was discontinued in 2006. As Cote D’Ivoire supplies almost 50% of the world’s supply of cocoa, this means that slavery has quite possibly touched much of the chocolate that sits in our North American stores. [...]

By: A year at A Peace of Conflict online. « a peace of conflict

A year at A Peace of Conflict online. « a peace of conflict — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:01:47 +0000

[...] for a conflict free laptop, and about violence; and many, many on my most researched topic– conflict resources specifically those in the DRC (including that on corporate accountability, corporate rule, or [...]

By: The accidental environmentalist. | Real Estate Toronto Canada

The accidental environmentalist. | Real Estate Toronto Canada — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:38:39 +0000

[...] product such as a cellphone or laptop computer that hasn’t helped in some way to finance civil war or helped to continue the rape, torture or death of innocent [...]

By: The accidental environmentalist. « Sustainable housing and real estate in Kitchener-Waterloo Region

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:09:25 +0000

[...] product such as a cellphone or laptop computer that hasn’t helped in some way to finance civil war or helped to continue the rape, torture or death of innocent [...]

By: Corporate Accountability: Political action to stop human rights abuses by Canadian mining, oil and gas companies. « a peace of conflict

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:28:39 +0000

[...] their abuses. It is disgusting to me that we live in a world that gives us little choice but to use human rights abusing products to be part of our society, mostly without our [...]

By: apeaceofconflict

apeaceofconflict — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:28:52 +0000

Thanks for the kind words Jen! Please pass the contacts on to everyone you can and let’s try encourage them to make a change!

By: JenLaHuera

JenLaHuera — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:16:45 +0000

Wow. Thank you for your intensive efforts & research to discover the truth about companies knowledge about and action steps against using conflict resources. I first learned about the problem in an article in the Huffington Post, and, faced with a looming computer purchase, decided to see what I could discover, but without much hope. I will absolutely use the contacts you provide here and share them with other consumers in the hope that we can start real momentum toward solving this nightmarish dilemma.

By: What are conflict resources? « MacBook Explained Online

What are conflict resources? « MacBook Explained Online — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:44:39 +0000

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