Archive for November, 2009
World Diamond Council Supports Kimberley Process in Controversial Decision
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009The Kimberley Process (KP) recently announced that, despite numerous reports of serious human rights violations by the Zimbabwean military in the country’s mining fields, Zimbabwe would not lose its KP membership. The KP’s alarming decision is now receiving support from the World Diamond Council (WDC), a global organization of diamond manufacturing and diamond trading companies [...]
UN Security Council Extends Ban on Diamonds from Côte d’Ivoire
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Measures by the United Nations to prevent the export of diamonds from Côte d’Ivoire will continue into the foreseeable future. Last week the United Nations Security Council voted to extend sanctions on the West African nation for another year. Those sanctions ban other states from importing diamonds from Côte d’Ivoire while also imposing an arms [...]
Kimberly Process Chooses Not to Suspend Zimbabwe
Monday, November 9th, 2009Once again demonstrating its inadequacy at ensuring the ethical mining of diamonds, the Kimberley Process (KP) has opted to let Zimbabwe off the hook for grave human rights abuses taking place in the country’s mining fields. Those abuses are not the work of a private mining company but are being instigated by Zimbabwe’s own government. [...]