Public consultation over due diligence guidelines for responsible mineral supply chains commenced at the beginning of October and will continue until the end of the month. The goal of the consultations is to ensure that Chinese companies can identify and lessen risks that can contribute to conflict, to serious breaches of human rights as well to widespread abuses across the globe.
The initiative aims to put controls in place along the whole supply chain. Chinese companies are numerous in Africa especially in the mineral sector and in the Kivu region in the east of The Republic of the Congo, a region riven by twenty years of conflict, as well as in Katanga to the south. China together with China Metallurgical Group Corporation and Jiangxi Copper are also on a course set for minerals mining in Afghanistan, a country with vast reserves of iron, copper, cobalt, and lithium.
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