ZIMBABWE: Kimberley Process ignores its own advice
Namibian coastal town of Swakopmund, as "the most disorganized plenary session ever held." NGOs to police the trade in conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds. The organization has 49 members representing 75 countries, and covers about 99.8 percent of the global production of rough diamonds....
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India asked to suspend Zimbabve from diamond trade
By: chnarendra
The Indian government should support the suspension of Zimbabwe from the international "conflict diamonds" body that will be meeting in Namibia next week, Human Rights Watch urged today. India is chair of the Participation Committee of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, a joint body of diamond industry, government, and non-...
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- News Source: Times Online | 26 days agoAt a meeting in Namibia the diamond producers, governments and human rights groups that make up the process agreed instead on an “action plan” to monitor stones from the Marange field in eastern Zimbabwe. The move came despite a confidential...
- News Source: Xtra News | 26 days agoZimbabwe on Thursday evaded a temporary ban from a global scheme to ban trade on conflict diamonds despite calls for the country to be suspended over human rights abuses in its gem fields. A four-day Kimberley Process (KP) meeting handed Zimbabwe a...
- News Source: Voice of America | 26 days agoMembers of the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme meeting in Namibia declined Thursday to suspend Zimbabwe from the organization over its failure to take strong action on human rights and other abuses in the Marange diamond field of eastern...
- News Source: IRIN | 27 days agoNamibian coastal town of Swakopmund, as "the most disorganized plenary session ever held." NGOs to police the trade in conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds. The organization has 49 members representing 75 countries, and covers about 99.8...
- News Source: Voice of America | 27 days agoZimbabwe remained at the top of the agenda Wednesday in an ongoing Windhoek, Namibia, meeting of the Kimberly Process which is considering a ban on the international sale of the country's diamonds over alleged human rights and other abuses in the...
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- Blog Source: www.zimbabwemetro.comZimbabwe has escaped suspension from the Kimberly process - the certification scheme which regulates the sale of so-called blood diamonds.
- Blog Source: story.argentinastar.comThe Kimberley Process, which is an initiative intended to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, may decide to suspend Zimbabwe from its ranks.
- Blog Source: vnstudy.orgThe so-called Kimberley Process, a joint international government, industry and civil society initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, will decide at its annual meeting in Namibia this week whether to suspend Zimbabwe from its certification
- Blog Source: www.zimbabwemetro.comThe council, which represents the industry in the Kimberley Process, as well as groups like Global Witness that have campaigned to stop the trade in conflict diamonds, contend that decisions on matters like Zimbabwe's status should be ...
- Blog Source: www.politicsdaily.comVoting to suspend Zimbabwe from the Kimberly Process would put a serious kink in Zimbabwe's diamond industry, and would be a blow to one of Mugabe's few remaining sources of patronage for his military thugs -- the same goombas ...
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