Would you...

Would you buy that computer, that cell phone, that electronic game if you knew some of the material used to put it together required raping of women and girls to get it?

In the DRC, war for minerals and money is being waged on the bodies of women and girls - sometimes as young as three. Some are being raped to death. Others are so damaged after an assault they need their entire reproductive tracts reconstructed - and even then it doesn't always work.

The DRC is ground zero for the highest rates of sexual violence on the planet. Just stop and think about that for a second. No matter any other country you think of, the stories you may have heard of rape and sexual violence, there is one place worse than that. And it's been going on for 12 years.

There is such a thing as the greater good. We - companies and individuals - have a responsibility to do as little harm to each other and the planet as possible. And when we know that people - women and girls - are being tortured, violated in unspeakable ways and even killed so that we can have the latest gadget at a lower cost, we have a responsibility, a duty even, to ask those companies to stop; to know where they are getting their parts from and to ensure that nothing they produce required someone being raped.

This is a moral imperative. After all women's rights ARE human rights.

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