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The Duck of Minerva (Free subscription) | yesterday
... cases where multi-level, multi-stakeholder governance would be required to create solutions. The Kimberley Process for conflict diamonds exemplified this approach (though it is not without its drawbacks, as this new report suggests). Certainly the segment suggested that we need an advocacy movement for conflict gold like the one for conflict diamonds in order to bring corporations...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
"The Kimberley Process is being used as a fig leaf to cover up human rights abuses in the diamond sector. Reports describing abuse have been kept secret by the KP and the World Diamond Council (WDC)," said Martin Rapaport, Chairman of the Rapaport Group. "Rapaport calls on the WDC to immediately make public all information it has relating to human rights abuses in the diamond sector,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... documented severe human rights abuses in Marange. Their demands that Zimbabwe be expelled from the Kimberley Process were denied. Human Rights Watch reported that late last year “the army killed at least 214 miners.” While the killings may have stopped, there are continued reports of human rights violations. Rapaport believes that blood diamonds from the Marange fields have been legally...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Earlier this month the body that regulates the sale of so-called blood diamonds, the Kimberley Process, rejected attempts by rights groups to suspend Zimbabwe.
