Conflict Minerals: Campaigners Push for 'Conflict-Free' Phones

Sep 25, 2014 | Tim Friend, Al Jazeera
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A huge number of phones and electronic items are made with metals from mines in conflict-ridden countries, but campaigners in Europe are looking to end this trade.

Like conflict diamonds, conflict minerals are mined in some of the most violent and corrupt places in the world such as the Democratic Republic of Congo where five million people have died over 10 years.