KPCS

'Weak KPCS' casts shadow on diamond industry

Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

The 2009 edition of Diamonds & Human Security Annual Review by Partnership Africa Canada, says the KPCS is failing.

Zimbabwean diamonds lose glitter for Mozambique's illegal traders

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

... The brutality nearly got Zimbabwe suspended from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), the global diamond trade body. Earlier this month, the KPCS gave Zimbabwe until June 2010 to implement a plan to bring it up to international standards. But military abuses reportedly continue."Zimbabwe is very bad," says a Somali dealer. He has a front tooth missing after a beating...

• Zimbabwean diamonds lose glitter for Mozambique's illegal traders - Scotsman.com

Zimbabwean diamonds lose glitter for Mozambique's illegal traders

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

... The brutality nearly got Zimbabwe suspended from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), the global diamond trade body. Earlier this month, the KPCS gave Zimbabwe until June 2010 to implement a plan to bring it up to international standards. But military abuses reportedly continue."Zimbabwe is very bad," says a Somali dealer. He has a front tooth missing after a beating...

Tumor-Like Stem Cells Derived from Human Keloid Are Governed by the Inflammatory Niche Driven by IL-17/IL-6 Axis

PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

... that keloid contains a new population of stem cells, named keloid derived precursor cells (KPCs), which exhibit clonogenicity, self-renewal, distinct embryonic and mesenchymal stem cell surface markers, and multipotent differentiation. KPCs display elevated telomerase activity and an inherently upregulated proliferation capability as compared to their peripheral normal skin counterparts....

Army, Police Leave Chiadzwa

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Speaking during a tour of the fields by a high-level Government delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara yesterday, Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu said Zimbabwe had complied with over 90 percent of the KPCS requirements.

Zimbabwe: Govt Escapes Diamond Trading Ban

All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Zimbabwe's rough diamond trade has escaped a six-month suspension by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - after its own investigating team recommended earlier in 2009 that the country be temporarily barred from importing and exporting the gems.

Diamond monitoring body urged to ban Zimbabwe over rights abuse allegations

JURIST (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

[JURIST] Human rights abuses in Zimbabwe's diamond mining industry were on the agenda Monday at the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process (KP), the global organization dedicated to suppressing trade in so-called "conflict diamonds." The objective of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is to curtail trade in conflict diamonds, or rough diamonds used by insurgencies to...

Crunch Time for Kimberley Process

All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

AS members of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme convene in Swakopmund today for a Plenary Meeting that will last until Thursday, various human rights groups calling for the suspension of Zimbabwe from the scheme have dismissed the KPCS as a failure.

Mugabe faces losing gem lifeline

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009

... sector. Members of the international diamond watchdog, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), will consider suspending Zimbabwe for at least six months at a four-day meeting after a working party investigated the Chiadzwa fields in the east of the country. A suspension would in effect stop the Zimbabwean government importing and exporting rough diamonds. However, the scheme is...

Zimbabwe given reprieve from suspension by 'blood diamonds' body

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

... to address issues of compliance and removing the military and things like that," Bernhard Esau, KPCS chairman and Namibia's deputy mines minister told the German Press Agency dpa. Instead, the KP, which has 49 members representing 75 countries, had drawn up an action plan with timelines which Zimbabwe would be required to follow, he said. Human rights activists had been calling for Zimbabwe's...

Blood diamonds: Zim could face suspension

IOL (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

... in the Namibian coastal resort of Swakopmund, which runs until Thursday.The certification scheme (KPCS), which was implemented in 2003 and counts Zimbabwe among its member countries, requires diamond- producing countries to have controls in place certifying shipments of rough diamonds as "conflict-free."Zimbabwe's Marange diamonds, from its eastern diamond fields, are under the spotlight...

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Zimbabwe: Country Faces Diamond Market Ban

All Africa (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

Country Faces Diamond Market Ban Kitsepile Nyathi30 October 2009|| Share: Harare — Zimbabwe could be banned from the world diamond market if a report on human rights violations at one of the country's notorious diamond fields is considered.The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is scheduled to meet in Namibia from Monday to Thursday, where it will consider a final report by a review...

Zimbabwe faces diamond market ban

News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

Zimbabwe could be banned from the world diamond market if a report on human rights violations at one of the country’s notorious diamond fields is considered.The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is scheduled to meet in Namibia from Monday to Thursday, where it will consider a final report by a review mission recommending a total ban on Zimbabwe’s diamonds.The mission led by Liberian...

Zimbabwe faces possible suspension from 'blood diamonds' watchdog

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

... in the Namibian coastal resort of Swakopmund, which runs until Thursday. The certification scheme (KPCS), which was implemented in 2003 and counts Zimbabwe among its member countries, requires diamond- producing countries to have controls in place certifying shipments of rough diamonds as "conflict-free."Zimbabwe's Marange diamonds, from its eastern diamond fields, are under the spotlight...