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Okie dokie, then. Gonna boycott?
Okie dokie, then. Gonna boycott?
I don't own an iPhone or a smartphone, so it's pretty easy for me to boycott.
Apple is not the only manufacturer with sourcing issues, Radioman.
An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity smartphones, laptops and digital cameras are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo.
The New York Times gets lamer by the day...
What is lame about trying to disincentivise rape and murder?
An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity smartphones, laptops and digital cameras are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo.
I'm not a techy person, Radioman, but it seems likely all of us can apply pressure.
There are about 600,000 cocoa farms in Cote d'Ivoire (Child Labor Coalition). Estimates of the number of children forced to work as slaves on these farms are as high as 15,000 (Save the Children Canada). In addition to the very illegality of trafficking and hiring children workers, the implicated cocoa farmers subject the children to inhuman living conditions. Besides overworking them, the farmers do not pay the children nor feed them properly-often times they are allowed to eat corn paste as their only meal. The denigration also includes locking the children up at night to prevent escape. Although it is only one of many occurrences of bonded labor, Aly Diabate's experience on a cocoa farm still illustrates how this torture strips away the dignity of children.
I’ve never reported on a war more barbaric than Congo’s, and it haunts me. In Congo, I’ve seen women who have been mutilated, children who have been forced to eat their parents’ flesh, girls who have been subjected to rapes that destroyed their insides. Warlords finance their predations in part through the sale of mineral ore containing tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold. For example, tantalum from Congo is used to make electrical capacitors that go into phones, computers and gaming devices.