Mark Leon Goldberg walks you through a new Congressional effort. Some provisions:

* development of a U.S. government strategy to address conflict minerals;

* support for further investigations by the U.N. Group of Experts;

* mapping of which armed groups control key mines in eastern Congo;

* inclusion of information on the negative impact of mineral exploitation and trade on human rights in Congo in the annual human rights reports;

This is hardly my strong suit, so I recommend reading Mark. I’ll be curious to see what the Natural Security team makes of the bill. Brad Plumer too.

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