On August 22, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, voted to adopt conflict minerals regulations in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act that require companies to publicly disclose whether any of the minerals they use originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country. If so, what steps they are taking to avoid sourcing from armed groups? The decision marked a major victory in the fight to end the trade in conflict minerals from eastern Congo—one that would not have happened without activist pressure on the SEC and the electronics industry.

While most attention at the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York this week focuses on who’s saying what on the main stage, a host of significant meetings are taking place on the sidelines, where world leaders can conduct some speed-diplomacy on neutral turf. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seized the opportunity to sit down with Presidents Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame for an unannounced meeting on Monday to press both leaders to actively seek solutions to the end the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Editor's Note: This op-ed originally appeared on Global Post.

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Editor's Note: This piece first appeared as part of New York Times "Room for Debate." Enough Project Co-founder John Prendergast and others—Daniel Bekele of Human Rights Watch, Michael Fairbanks of The Seven Fund, Girma Fantaye, an Ethiopian journalist, and author Deborah Brautigam—address the question: How should the U.S.