V-Day Founder Eve Ensler: The Full D7 Session
by Kara Swisher
Posted on June 18, 2009 at 10:04 PM PT
As founder of a global movement to end violence against women and girls, Eve Ensler has long been focused on human rights issues across the world.
Onstage in an interview at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, she shed much-needed light on the dire situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where some of the worst atrocities are now being committed on the population in a terrible civil war.
Ensler’s aim is to end the use of rape as a weapon of war there, which is, in part, a consequence of the region’s coltan trade. Coltan, or columbite tantalite, is a mineral essential to the manufacture of a wide array of consumer electronics, such as mobile phones and laptops.
It is well worth hearing about exactly how some of our everyday gadgets come to us at a terrible price.
Here is the video of the full D7 session:
