{"id":6500,"date":"2012-02-21T14:53:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:53:59","slug":"phone-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/02\/21\/phone-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone firm takes tough stance on \u2018conflict minerals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/Features\/smartcompany\/Phone+firm+takes+tough+stance+on+conflict+minerals+\/-\/1226\/1331458\/-\/item\/0\/-\/15b6339\/-\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6501\" title=\"Phone firm takes tough stance on \u2018conflict minerals\u2019 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/120220_cm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Nokia recently raised its voice on the issue of conflict minerals by publishing a policy that spells out its stand. The Finnish phone maker joins other consumer electronics  companies in the corporate responsibility of avoiding conflict minerals  in their supply chain. \u201cWe are concerned about the link between illegal  extraction and trade in natural resources, and associated human rights  violations, conflict and environmental degradation,\u201d the policy reads in  part. \u201cCurrently, these issues are acute in the eastern  provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the extraction  and trade of ores of tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold, which flow to  world markets through DRC and adjoining countries.\u2019 Coltan, tungsten, tin and gold are among the precious metals found in most electronics gadgets. Laptops, mobile phones, personal computers, TVs,  tablets like iPads and other consumer electronics gadgets have part of  their circuitry made from these metals. Incidentally, the metals have  been a bone of contention for decades in parts of central Africa. To establish its stand clearly, Nokia states in its  policy that it prohibits human rights abuses associated with the  extraction, transport or trade in minerals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/Features\/smartcompany\/Phone+firm+takes+tough+stance+on+conflict+minerals+\/-\/1226\/1331458\/-\/item\/0\/-\/15b6339\/-\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Democratic Republic of Congo | Company: Nokia, Apple, Intel | Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/Features\/smartcompany\/Phone+firm+takes+tough+stance+on+conflict+minerals+\/-\/1226\/1331458\/-\/item\/0\/-\/15b6339\/-\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Nation (Kenya) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia recently raised its voice on the issue of conflict minerals by publishing a policy that spells out its stand. The Finnish phone maker joins other consumer electronics companies in the corporate responsibility of avoiding conflict minerals in their supply chain. \u201cWe are concerned about the link between illegal extraction and trade in natural resources,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,36,16],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-intel","tag-nokia","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}