The newly-appointed U.S. chair of the international diamond watchdog has called for a review of what constitutes a “blood diamond.” According to the Kimberley Process, launched in 2003 to certify that ...

Namibia hosts the Kimberley Process Intersessional Meeting in Windhoek starting tomorrow. Namibia's Deputy Mines Minister, Bernhard Esau, who chairs the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), ...

Diamonds, symbols of beauty and status, may hide a dark history of exploitation and violence in mining regions. The UN's Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, established in 2003, aims to prevent ...

(Jerusalem) - The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme should not allow further exports from the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe until the government makes clear progress in ending abuses and ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Amid the headlines of perennial eurozone crises and Middle East instability, ...

From 2000 to 2008 Zimbabwe collapsed: the confiscation of white-owned farms precipitated the destruction of its economy; mad monetary policies led to hyperinflation; malnutrition and a cholera ...

The Kimberley Process (KP), aimed at stemming the trade of conflict diamonds, was definitely still alive and strong, KP chair, and South Africa's special representative to Africa's Great Lakes ...

A new report from the chair of the Kimberley Process – an initiative aimed at keeping conflict diamonds out of the global precious stones market – indicates that the UN-backed scheme is moving forward ...

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PARIS — A global body created to curb trade in diamonds that finance conflict has agreed to allow Zimbabwe to export limited numbers of stones from fields where the military has been accused of human ...

The ban on diamond exports from a controversial field in Zimbabwe will remain in place for now, a top Kimberley Process official said Thursday, after four days of negotiations at a meeting in Tel Aviv ...