Game over for Nintendo?
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 April 2014 10:40
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Nintendo products are made using minerals which may have been mined by slave labour. Other manufacturers like Intel are already cleaning up their supply chain.
Tell Nintendo to commit to making a conflict mineral-free product in the next year.
It’s shocking to realise that the minerals used to make phones and computers are mined by slave labour in sub-Saharan Africa. Campaign groups like Walk Free are fighting to get companies to take responsibility for their supply chains and help end slavery, child labour and human rights abuses.
Nintendo are the world’s biggest console producer and are way behind other companies in cleaning up their act. Intel have already committed to creating conflict-free products and want others to follow suit.
Tell Nintendo to stop using conflict minerals.
Nintendo’s 2013 report, ‘Bringing Smiles to the Community’, lists all the children’s health, education and human rights charities supported by its offices around the world - but it hasn’t committed to cutting out conflict minerals, mined by slave labour and by children in horrifying conditions.
Thanks for all that you do,
Hanna and the rest of us.
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For more information:
Enough Games Nintendo: time for action against slavery, Walk Free, 2014
Intel vows to stop using 'conflict minerals' in new chips, BBC News, 7 January 2014
Nintendo CSR Report 2013: ‘Bringing smiles to the community’
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