{"id":976730,"date":"2025-11-27T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976730"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:20:31","slug":"us-group-sues-apple-over-congo-conflict-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/27\/us-group-sues-apple-over-congo-conflict-minerals\/","title":{"rendered":"US group sues Apple over Congo conflict minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAKAR\/LONDON: A U.S.-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker&#8217;s denials. <\/p>\n<p>International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) previously filed a lawsuit against tech firms including Tesla, Apple and other companies over cobalt sourcing, but U.S. courts dismissed that case last year. French prosecutors also dropped Congo&#8217;s case against Apple subsidiaries in December over conflict minerals, citing lack of evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAKAR\/LONDON: A U.S.-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker&#8217;s denials. International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) previously filed a lawsuit against tech firms including Tesla, Apple and other companies over cobalt sourcing, but U.S. courts dismissed that case last year. French prosecutors also dropped Congo&#8217;s case against Apple subsidiaries in December over conflict minerals, citing lack of evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}