The Enough Project (@enoughproject) named the Scrooges of the Electronic Industry; Canon, Panasonic, and Sharp. Women and children in eastern Congo bear the hidden cost of metals used by some electronic manufacturers.
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The mobile phones, laptops, tablets and other electronic gadgets that define our age are all made with tin, tungsten, tantalite and gold. Those increasingly valuable minerals are mined in eastern Congo -- where their profits are blamed for fueling the region's ongoing war.
A new survey urges American consumers to press electronic manufacturers to make sure that their products do not contain minerals that cause war, mass rape, murder and exploitation in eastern Congo. The world's top 21 electronics firms are ranked according to their efforts to make their products "conflict free" in a survey published Monday by the Enough Project, a Washington-based pressure group.
HP is the best, according to the rankings. Intel, Motorola and Nokia ranked two, three and four, respectively. Microsoft and Dell round out the top five. At the bottom of the rankings were camera-maker Canon, electronics companies Panasonic and Sharp, and video game giant Nintendo, all of which are deemed by Enough to have done nothing.
The scores were based on the steps the companies have taken, according to their responses to a Enough's survey and publicly available information, said David Sullivan, research director for the Enough Project.
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