Blood Diamonds: The Dazzling Dilemma in the DRC
网页2020年5月26日 · These diamonds are illegally traded to fund conflict in war-torn areas, most prominently in central and western Africa and entail high levels of exploitation in their extraction. The illicit trade of diamonds represents four percent of the world’s diamond population, a significant decrease from 2003.
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.
Conflict diamonds | Blood diamonds - Global Witness
网页Diamonds have funded brutal wars in countries such as Angola, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, resulting in the death and displacement of millions of people. There is a reason they are dubbed ‘Blood Diamonds’.
Blood Diamonds - TIME
网页Even in some cases where the Kimberley Process has implemented a ban—as in the Central African Republic (CAR), where diamonds have helped fund a genocidal war that has killed thousands...
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...
Central African Republic warning over 'blood diamonds' - BBC
网页2015年9月30日 · Authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) should confiscate "blood diamonds" to prevent them being exported, Amnesty International says. The human rights group said CAR's biggest...
Bloodstained: The Diamond Trade in Central Africa - ArcGIS …
网页2024年2月2日 · Many blood diamonds are smuggled out of the corrupt countries they were originally mined in, and given Kimberley Process certificates in neighboring countries. This is a process known as diamond laundering.
The Fight Against Blood Diamonds Continues - TIME
网页2015年8月27日 · Even in some cases where the Kimberley Process has implemented a ban–as in the Central African Republic (CAR), where diamonds have helped fund a genocidal war that has killed thousands...
The Kimberley Process - Global Witness
网页2013年4月1日 · Global Witness first exposed the problem of blood diamonds in 1998 and played a key role in establishing the Kimberley Process (KP), a government-led certification scheme, initiated in a bid to clean up the diamond trade. The scheme was launched in 2003 and requires member states to set up an import and export control system for rough diamonds.
Companies Must Not Profit From Blood Diamonds in the Central African ...
网页2015年9月29日 · The Central African Republic’s (CAR) biggest traders have purchased diamonds worth several million dollars without adequately investigating whether they financed armed groups responsible for summary executions, rape, enforced disappearances and widespread looting, Amnesty International said in a report published today.