OECD MONITORING SYSTEM TO PREVENT ARMED GROUPS BENEFITING FROM GREAT LAKES’ MINERALS
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE is being applied to non-ferrous metal mining companies to follow an Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) code of practice that prevents them fuelling armed conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
Its countries have been witness to come of the worst human rights abuses and violence of the last 50 years: the genocide in Rwanda and the bloody civil war of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). And mining and metal companies that extract, process and export tin, tantalum, tungsten, gold, and their ores ...
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