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(New York) - Civil Society organizations, including Global Witness, Human Rights Watch, and Partnership Africa Canada, today condemned the state-sponsored harassment and intimidation of a Zimbabwean...

The Kimberley Process: Too Important to Fail, Too Important for Pretense By all indications, and from the evidence gathered for this year's Diamonds and Human Security Annual Review, the Kimberley...

Le Processus de Kimberley : trop important pour échouer, trop important pour faire semblant Tout porte à croire, notamment les preuves réunies pour la présente Revue annuelle sur les diamants et la...

A coalition of civil society organisations acknowledged some progress at the close of the sixth Intersessional meeting of Kimberley Process Certification Scheme in Windhoek, Namibia this week but...

Summary This report describes the role of diamonds in the Zimbabwean economy and their place in the country's increasingly repressive governance. It describes growing evidence of smuggling, the...

Le commerce illicite : une porte d'entrée pour les diamants de guerre Le commerce illicite des diamants bruts est l'une des plus grandes menaces auxquelles est confronté le Système de certification...

The illicit trade: Gateway for conflict diamonds The illicit trade in rough diamonds is one of the greatest threats facing the Kimberley Process (KP) certification scheme. The KP was created to halt...

January 31, 2005. The partial stability in Sudan and the peace agreement between Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement suggest that the immediate and most dangerous phase of...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the urgent need to address violence against women and use of HIV as a weapon of war has been identified as a top priority by Congolese NGOs. In Why...

A CASE STUDY OF THE CONFLICT IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Eli Mechanic Partnership Africa Canada I. INTRODUCTION "Violence is a way to dominate, and you can only dominate someone if you...

Freetown, June 2003 Lansana Gberie, Partnership Africa Canada The Heart of the Matter Sierra Leone has just gone through a decade of brutal conflict in which tens of thousands of people were killed,...

by Ian Smillie The Study "Motherhood, Apple Pie and False Teeth: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Diamond Industry" is an Occasional Paper of the Diamonds and Human Security Project, a joint...

By Christian Dietrich The first impression of the Central African Republic (CAR) on arrival in the capital, Bangui, is of a country forgotten by the rest of the world. There are few embassies, and...

The Study This paper builds on findings contained in a previous publication of the Diamonds and Human Security Project: Hard Currency: The Criminalized Diamond Economy of the Democratic Republic of...

By Lansana Gberie "Ours was not a civil war. It was not a war based on ideology, religion or ethnicity, nor was it a 'class war'... It was a war of proxy aimed at permanent rebel control of our rich...

By Ian Smillie 'Sunlight is the best disinfectant.' - Miguel Schloss, Transparency International Part I: Monitoring and The Kimberley Process Conflict diamonds have contributed to the deaths of...

From August 5-7, 2002, a workshop on the plunder of Congo's natural resources was organized in Kinshasa by CENADEP - Centre National d'Appui au Développement et à la Participation Populaire. The...

By Christian Dietrich The Study Hard Currency: The Criminalized Diamond Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its Neighbours is an Occasional Paper of the Diamonds and Human Security...

Conference Report, Ottawa, June 21-23, 2000. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Summary 2. By way of an introduction, comments from the Conference... 3. Security 4. Resource Management 5. Relief and Development 6...