Cracking Down on Conflict Minerals

Electronics companies face new rules on minerals mined in war zones - In the jungles and mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, battles are raging, part of a 13-year-long civil war. Most of the world has paid little attention to the murder and rape that still dominates life in the DRC\´s eastern provinces. But U.S. electronics companies like HP, Intel, and Apple recently became deeply interested, thanks to a provision on "conflict minerals" that was slipped into a 2010 financial reform law, the Dodd-Frank Act.