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Oct 8, 2009A growing network of activists is flexing its market muscle to help end the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the deadliest and most neglected war in the world. That country's conflict minerals continue to play a central role in financing some of the worst human rights abuses in the world, including an epidemic of sexual violence perpetrated by fighters on all sides of the war.
These same minerals -- tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold -- are essential to our cell phones, computers and other high-tech gadgets. Emerging activism in the United States and Europe is recognizing that this link between our gadgets and Congo's conflict provides an opportunity to be part of a solution.
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