Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Democratic Republic of
the
Congo next week provides the opportunity to demonstrate the importance
of ending the world’s most pronounced use of rape as a weapon.
She will
hopefully signal a greater investment in peacemaking and civilian
protection by the United States. But private-sector action is equally
needed. An essential ingredient for the solution will be the success of
an embryonic consumer campaign in which American and European buyers of
cellphones, laptops, and iPods begin to demand conflict-free
electronics products that don’t source their essential materials
from
mines that produce deadly conflict.
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