Blood diamond | Conflict, Trade & Human Rights | Britannica
网页2024年10月3日 · The very specific UN definition of blood diamonds was formulated during the 1990s, when brutal civil wars were being waged in parts of western and central Africa by rebel groups based in diamond-rich areas of their countries.
Blood diamond - Wikipedia
网页The origins of the Kimberley Process were dramatized in Ed Zwick's motion picture Blood Diamond (2006), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou. The film helped to publicize the controversy surrounding conflict diamonds and led to worldwide awareness of the Western African involvement in the diamond trade.
Tracing the colonial origins of conflict diamonds | Stanford Report
网页2021年4月6日 · In his new book Blood and Diamonds (Harvard University Press, 2021), Press outlines how from 1884 to 1918, the German colonial government and its representatives perpetrated genocide against the indigenous Nama and Herero peoples while scouring the region for diamonds.
Diamond Trade Still Fuels Human Suffering - Human Rights Watch
网页2018年5月10日 · It’s been almost two decades now since governments came together to end the trade in “blood diamonds” that were fuelling several brutal wars in Africa. They set up the Kimberley Process...
Blood Diamonds: The Dazzling Dilemma in the DRC
网页2020年5月26日 · Seeking to address the growing consequences of blood diamonds, the Fowler Report was released in 2000 and shed light on the ways in which various companies, and African and European governments violated sanctions imposed by the UN.
The True Story of Blood Diamonds - HowStuffWorks
网页Only kings or queens had them; they just weren't for "regular" people. But then, a huge deposit of diamonds was discovered in South Africa. That's when British imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, moved in and started buying up all the property he could, including a farm owned by two brothers named de Beer.
网页Set in 1999 in Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond portrays the violent struggles of the country’s civil war and the diamond trade that fueled the conflict. The film concludes with a conference, representative of the actual meeting held in Kimberley, South Africa, which gave rise to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
Blood Diamonds in Sierra Leone: How Colonialism Functions Today
网页2020年11月29日 · After Sierra Leone gained independence from Britain in 1961, this brutal and overt colonialism was replaced by covert economic exploitation. The people of Sierra Leone had lost billions of potential revenue to foreign miners and British companies during the prior three decades.
Blood Diamond Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa - ArcGIS StoryMaps
网页2021年10月14日 · Blood Diamond conflicts were launched into global media in the late 1990's following UN sanctions against Angolan rebels. The war had dragged on for over 25 years because of outsourced investments into the diamond mines. For 8 years, Angolan rebels sold diamonds exclusively to the South-African diamond company, De Beers.
How diamonds fuel Africa’s conflicts | CNN - CNN International
网页2012年4月26日 · Conflict or “blood” diamonds are illegally traded to fund conflict in war-torn areas, particularly in central and western Africa, according to the World Diamond council, which represents the...