{"id":7964,"date":"2013-06-20T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T14:36:58","slug":"anti-slavery-campaign-targets-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/06\/20\/anti-slavery-campaign-targets-nintendo\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Anti-slavery campaign targets Nintendo<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/read\/anti-slavery-campaign-targets-nintendo\/0117367\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7965\" alt=\"Anti-slavery campaign targets Nintendo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/130621_nin.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Human rights organisation Walk Free has launched a campaign targeting Nintendo. The body seeks assurances that Nintendo hardware doesn\u2019t use slave-mined minerals, which can arrive on the global market from troubled regions such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, in any of its hardware. A petition demanding confirmation on the issue and an audit of Nintendo\u2019s supply chain has so far attracted over 400,000 signatures, the group claims. It has created a video, which can be seen below, and a Flash game, which can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slaveryisnotagame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the official website<\/a>, to try and draw attention to the issue. \u201cWhile this parody allows gamers to demand that Nintendo articulate credible steps to ensure slavery is not in its supply chain, slavery is not a game,\u201d Walk Free\u2019s movement director Debra Rosen stated. \u201cWe\u2019re not mocking the problem, we\u2019re poking fun at the absurdity of Nintendo\u2019s lack of response. Nintendo \u2014 as the world\u2019s largest maker of video game machines \u2014 should be leading other consumer electronics companies in showing the public that they are working to have a supply chain free of slavery. Instead, they are lagging behind.\u201d <a title=\"Anti-slavery campaign targets Nintendo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/read\/anti-slavery-campaign-targets-nintendo\/0117367\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country:\u00c2\u00a0Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo | Company: Nintendo | Source: <a title=\"Anti-slavery campaign targets Nintendo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/read\/anti-slavery-campaign-targets-nintendo\/0117367\" target=\"_blank\">MCV<\/a><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights organisation Walk Free has launched a campaign targeting Nintendo. The body seeks assurances that Nintendo hardware doesn\u2019t use slave-mined minerals, which can arrive on the global market from troubled regions such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, in any of its hardware. A petition demanding confirmation on the issue and an audit of&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":[162],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nintendo","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964","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=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}