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Blog Posts in Conflict-Free Campus Initiative
On May 2, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law the Maryland State Procurement and Congo Conflict Minerals Bill, making Maryland the second state to pass such legislation.
Student leaders Henry Dambanemuya and Ellie Hamrick recently spearheaded a conflict minerals event and workshop during a summit in Indiana focused on prevention of genocide and mass atrocities. In this guest post, they wrote about how Congo advocacy is taking off on campuses across the state.
This oped by three student leaders in the Coalition for a Conflict-Free Duke, Liz Hannah, Saira Butt, and Sanjay Kishore, originally appeared in The Duke Chronicle.
Since late 2010, the Conflict-Free Campus Initiative, or CFCI, has been the leading component of the conflict-free movement—a growing constituency of consumers who demand that their electronics products contain conflict-free minerals from eastern Congo as a way of ensuring sustainable peace in the region. Last weekend, 45 student leaders in this movement, converged upon Washington, D.C., for a two-day conference to discuss the role of student activism in enacting change in Congo.
The conflict-free movement sweeping the nation was on full display inside New York City’s Grand Central Station at the opening of the Apple store on December 9. Activists inspired by Congolese human rights activist Delly Mawazo Sesete’s petition on Change.org targeting Apple CEO Tim Cook—which has already gained more than 27,000 signatures—gathered to rally in support of Apple’s continued role as an industry leader, and to encourage the company to create the world's first conflict-free product sourcing clean minerals from the Congo.
