The conflict in eastern Congo, the deadliest in the world since World War II, is being fueled by a multi-million dollar trade in minerals that go into our electronic products from cell phones to digital cameras. Recognizing that the big electronics companies have a major role to play in ensuring that Congo's minerals don't continue to fuel the ongoing crisis, a coalition of 32 organizations, including human rights, labor, environmental, conflict resolution, consumer advocacy, conservation, fair trade, faith-based, and other advocacy groups, sent a letter outlining our concerns to the 21 largest consumer electronics companies.

Following that effort, the Enough Project has worked with other like-minded groups to create a conflict minerals pledge that commits electronics companies to ensure their products are conflict-free.

CONFLICT MINERALS PLEDGE

Companies manufacturing, retailing, or trading in materials containing tin, tantalum, tungsten, or gold that may originate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have an obligation to ensure that they are not financing armed groups and military units or contributing to human rights abuses at any point along the supply chain. As suppliers of these products, we are united in our belief that we can be part of the solution to this deadly conflict.

Corporate Pledge:
By signing the Conflict Minerals Pledge, the company commits to ensuring that its products will be conflict-free.

In support of this goal, companies commit to the following steps:

1. trace the supply chain for all tin, tantalum, tungsten, or gold in their products to verify their mines of origin; and
2. conduct independently verifiable supply chain audits to document the routes taken, intermediaries involved, and transactions made from mine of origin to final product.

Signatories:

The Enough Project and its partners will work with companies that sign the pledge to help them fulfill their commitments, and support efforts to provide companies with definitive guidance from the United Nations, the U.S. government, and expert sources on conflict actors and areas of concern in eastern Congo. If you are a company that would like to learn more or sign on to the pledge, please send an email to conflictminerals@enoughproject.org.

By endorsing the Conflict Minerals Pledge, organizations commit to using their voices and consumer power to influence companies to sign the pledge.

Organizational Endorsers*:

*If your organization would like to endorse the conflict minerals pledge, please email us at conflictminerals@enoughproject.org.