All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
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...
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.
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...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
