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Blog: Conflict Minerals and Supply Chain Scrutiny
Marshall Chase, Associate Director, Advisory Services
Two recent events on opposite sides of the United States will have significant implications for industries ranging from high-tech electronics and aircraft engines to commodities like cans and cutting tools, whose supply chains source minerals like gold and ores containing tantalum, tin, and tungsten. In Washington, D.C., the financial reform legislation passed by a House-Senate conference committee early June 25 included a provision requiring companies to publicly report on their use of so-called “conflict minerals” from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring countries. And in California’s Silicon Valley, the trustees of Stanford University have voted to support shareholder resolutions on the same subject. Read more →
BSR Insight Article: Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Sustainability
Cody Sisco, Former Manager, Advisory Services
At last week’s UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, the international business community gathered to, in the words of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, “highlight the key role of responsible business in building markets that are more sustainable and inclusive.” Read more
BSR Insight Article: Conflict Minerals, Supply Chains, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Marshall Chase, Associate Director, Advisory Services
Recently, BSR and the shareholder advocacy organization As You Sow convened companies, NGOs, investors, and government entities to highlight the connections between the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the trade in minerals (tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold) from that region, and industries—ranging from electronics and energy to canned goods and cutting tools—using those minerals. Read more
Report: Conflict Minerals and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Marshall Chase, Associate Director, Advisory Services
NGOs, governments, and businesses are increasingly focused on the issue of "conflict minerals," whose sourcing and trade support armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This report offers an overview of these mineral supply chains and the relevance for a range of industries, and highlights challenges and opportunities for companies to address conflict minerals in their supply chains through support of supply chain responsibility efforts, government engagement on the issue, and local capacity building in the Congo. Read more
Blog: Google and China: When Should Business Leave on Human Rights Grounds?
By Aron Cramer, President and CEO, and Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, ICT Practice, BSR
With Google’s decision today to shut down its Chinese-based search engine, google.cn, the company has won considerable praise from organizations concerned about its human rights record. This approval stands in stark contrast to the condemnation the company received when first entering the country in 2006. The Financial Times cartoonist Ingram Pinn captured these contrasting perspectives perfectly, depicting Google as the speech-suppressing “Great Firewall of China” in 2006, then casting the company as the lone protestor stopping the tanks in their tracks in 2010. Read more →
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