60Minutes

Nominations are out for the 62nd annual Emmy Awards, and Enough is thrilled and honored to learn that the Congo Gold episode of CBS’ “60 Minutes” was nominated for television’s biggest award of the year.  Read More »

The Conflict Minerals Trade Act, or H.R. 4128, continues to pick up steam in the new year as another seven representatives recently signed on.  Read More »

The effort to raise awareness of ongoing atrocities in Democratic Republic of Congo—especially the rampant use of rape as a weapon by the Congolese military—got a boost this past weekend when actress and activist Andie MacDowell screened Emmy-nominated documentary The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo  in her home state of North Carolina.  Read More »

Yesterday the New York Times published its list of Buzzwords of the Year, and conflict minerals was one of them.  Read More »

California Senator Dianne Feinstein signed on to the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009 (S.891) this Monday, making her the eleventh cosponsor of this important bill that seeks to ensure U.S. involvement in the mineral trade does not contribute to human rights violations and crimes against humanity in eastern Congo.  Read More »

An LA Times editorial calls attention to the role of conflict minerals in fueling Congo’s ongoing conflict.  Read More »

The Report of the U.N. Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo, and concurrent research by the Enough Project, raises significant concerns regarding links between Niotan and a network of companies tied to conflict minerals originating in militarized mining sites in eastern Congo.  Read More »

Morehouse professor Texas in Africa's recent post, which takes issue with claims that the minerals are directly causing sexual violence, is an egregious and misleading attack on a straw man.  Read More »

It’s that time of year to pull out your holiday wish list and add to it the myriad things you’ve been dreaming of. But before you join the throng of holiday shoppers, here’s something to consider. The chances are all too high that the gadget or gold watch you’ve been lusting after was manufactured with Congo’s conflict minerals.  Read More »

A special op-ed on CNN today, by Enough's John Prendergast and Sasha Lezhnev of Grassroots Reconciliation Group.  Read More »