This infoclip illustrates a company based in the Netherlands producing fair phones

mobile phone

Netherlands

Amsterdam

fair trade

conflict minerals (T)

Infoclip: Conflict Minerals - Fair phones

https://api.multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/documents/20125/19001725/I135071Chapters%5BSD-EN%5D.srt

View of Amsterdam. Boat on water and tram on bridge.

Tram passing in front of Central Station in Amsterdam

Inscription on a wall : "#WeAreFairphone"

Two colleagues walking towards office desk

Colleagues talking and looking at the computer screen (2 shots)

SOUNDBITE (English), Laura Gerritsen , (Fairphone), Fairphone started as a campaign around conflict minerals and we decided to make our own product to be able to address the issues that we saw happening in industry.

SOUNDBITE (English), Laura Gerritsen , (Fairphone), In those areas, a lot of people are very dependent on income from mining, it's a main part of their livelihoods

SOUNDBITE (English), Laura Gerritsen, (Fairphone), We wanted to source from these areas and make this step to prove that it is possible to source from these areas in a more responsible way.

SOUNDBITE (English), Laura Gerritsen , (Fairphone), We engage with component manufacturers to understand the exact supply chain of a certain material

SOUNDBITE (English), Laura Gerritsen , (Fairphone), In that way we are able to trace it up to the refiner.

SOUNDBITE (English), Laura Gerritsen , (Fairphone), We can see that a lot of the conflict actors have moved out of a lot of types of mining