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There is a reason they are dubbed ‘Blood Diamonds’. Global Witness was the first organisation to bring the world’s attention to this problem. Our ground-breaking report, A Rough Trade, released in 1998, exposed the role of diamonds in funding the civil war in Angola.
- The Kimberley Process
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- An Inside Job
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- 25 years of creating change
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- The Truth About Diamonds
Conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds, are...
- The Kimberley Process
1 Απρ 2013 · Global Witness first exposed the problem of blood diamonds in 1998 and played a key role in establishing the Kimberley Process (KP), a government-led certification scheme, initiated in a bid to clean up the diamond trade.
Global Witness has worked on diamonds, oil, timber, cocoa, gas, gold and other minerals. It has undertaken investigations and case studies in Cambodia, Angola, Liberia, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kazakhstan, Burma, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Turkmenistan and Ivory Coast.
Global Witness exposes how diamonds are fuelling civil war in Angola and across Africa, thrusting the practices of the global diamond industry into the spotlight for the first time.
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is the process established in 2003 to prevent "conflict diamonds" from entering the mainstream rough diamond market by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 55/56 following recommendations in the Fowler Report.
Global Witness recently filed a claim with the French Public Prosecutor in Nantes against French logging company DLH, for purchasing illegally sourced timber from the Taylor government. Why is Naomi Campbell being called? It is alleged that Charles Taylor gave Campbell a diamond.
Conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds, are diamonds that are used by rebel groups to fuel conflict and civil wars. They have funded brutal conflicts in Africa that have resulted in the death and displacement of millions of people.
