2011 Net Impact Conference, Oct. 27-29, Portland, OR

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RSN’s Patricia Jurewicz will be speaking at Net Impact on Friday, October 28th @ 10:45 am. Her presentation is titled- ‘Conflict Minerals:How to bring peace to a supply chain.’

Other speakers included are:Deborah Albers, Sr. Manager, Sustainable Business - Governance, Dell and Tim Mohin, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).

More information about Net Impact can be found here

Informed Activism Conference at Clark University

Date: Saturday- Sunday, September 24 - 25, 2011

Location:Clark University,  
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
508-793-441

Patricia Jurewicz from RSN will be speaking about: “Can We Ensure Accountability for Conflict-Free Minerals?”on Saturday, September 24 @ 2:30pm in Jefferson 222.

More information can be found here.

International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) - 70th Plenary Meeting

“Public and Private Sector Roles in the Cotton Value Chain: Ensuring Both Efficiency and Fairness”

Date: 4 - 10 September 2011

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

More information on the conference can be found here.

Blood in the Mobile at the CounterCorp Film Festival

May 20, 2011 at 9pm in San Francisco, CA

Victoria Theater, Mission District

Join Patricia Jurewicz at the California premiere of Blood in the Mobile. She will answer questions after the 9pm showing, which is part of the CounterCorp Film Festival.

A hundred years after Belgium’s savage colonial plunder of the Congo (recounted in King Leopold’s Ghost), the hypocrisy of so-called “corporate social responsibility” is laid bare as the country’s people and resources are once again being brutally exploited, this time in the name of higher profits. The spoils are rare minerals such as coltan and cassiterite — used to make cellphones, computers, and other electronics — that are financing the bloodiest conflict since World War II, as huge companies resist efforts to restrict the trade in these “blood minerals”.

SIF's Conference - Responsible Investing: Impact & Innovation

June 10th, Patricia will speak at the Social Investment Forum 2011 conference in Washington DC.

Panel: Confronting Conflict Minerals  from 9:35-10:45 AM

For several years, a factional war has been raging in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, characterized by extreme levels of violence, particularly against women. Humanitarian observers believe that the mines in the DRC, many of which are controlled by various armed factions, provide financing that fuels the conflict. Concerns about the violence have motivated numerous institutional investors and companies to ensure that minerals such as tantalum and tin are not sourced from areas of conflict, and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law includes a provision requiring publicly traded companies to verify that they are not sourcing minerals from the DRC. On this panel, an institutional investor coordinator, a human rights activist and a company representative discuss their work to address the problem of conflict minerals.

Fellow Panelists:

Sasha Lezhnev, Policy Consultant, the Enough Project

Tim Mohin, Director of Corporate Responsibility, AMD

Bennett Freeman, Senior Vice President, Sustainability Research and Policy, Calvert Investments (moderator)