Note: This op-ed originally appeared in Chemical Watch and was written by Enough Project’s Director of Advocacy and Impact, Ian Schwab and Advocacy Manager, Annie Callaway.
Despite the anti-regulatory fever currently gripping Washington, DC, it seems at least one business regulation has proved far more popular than any of its critics had imagined.
It is uncommon for businesses to advocate for their own regulation. Even more unusual for human rights activists, community leaders, and civil society groups to stand alongside investor groups and multinational corporations regarding a US policy that seeks to reduce funding to armed groups in somewhere as far off as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). But in the case of the Conflict Minerals Rule, we see just that convergence of interests…