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Diamonds and Human Security


Other Facets

Other Facets, a periodic newsletter about the international effort to end diamond-related conflict.

Number 35 - August 2011

    • The Kimberley Process Derails Over Zimbabwe - NGOs Walk Out of Kinshasa KP Meeting, Consider Options
    • Zimbabwe?  No Double Standards Here…
    • Kinshasa Text
    • Minister Mpofu - How not to Win Friends and Influence People
    • Ethical Consumers and Africa - A Growing Disconnect
    • The Kimberley Process: Necessary, but not Sufficient
    • Looking for a Hero – Will the Diamond Industry Please Stand Up?
    • Going Round in Consensus Circles
    • Searching for a Silver Lining

    Number 34 - February 2011

    • New mineral certification scheme launched
    • Zimbabwe: KP goes soft, green-lights Marange exports
    • Canadile melts down
    • Anjin: Who’s behind the latest Marange player?
    • Plenary report: Enforcing the KPCS
    • KP takes pass on Human Rights
    • DR Congo takes over KP Chair, sets out agenda
    • Conflict watch: Central African Republic, Angola, Côte d’Ivoire

    Number 33 - August 2010

    • Limited Marange Exports Agreed to in St. Petersburg
    • The Road to St. Petersburg: Dead-lock Near the Dead Sea
    • A Reform Agenda: How to Strengthen the KP
    • Israel Spells Out KP Agenda
    • KP Considers Better Enforcement Strategies
    • Human Rights Activist Wins Bail
    • New Publications

    Number 32 - February 2010

    • Kimberley Process Plenary in Namibia: rearranging the deck chairs?
    • Israel takes over KP leadership
    • Venezuela
    • Côte d'Ivoire
    • KP announces Monitor for Marange
    • Rapaport calls for Marange diamond ban
    • Civil Society under Attack by KP member states
    • From tragedy to farce: Zimbabwe flouts us still

    Number 31 - October 2009

    • Plenary 2009: Time for Renewal: Seven Years, Seven Issues
    • A Sorry Catalogue: Current Unresolved Issues in the Kimberley Process
    • Civil Society: Here for Good
    • To the KP Plenary 2009: Remember — In Time, or In Memoriam?

    Number 30 - June 2009

    • Zimbabwe: Massacre, smuggling and KP dithering
    • Venezuela update: The Kimberley sham
    • Trade bans not the answer in DRC: Report urges support for formalizing the informal sector
    • The Taylor trial: Request for acquittal rejected, son gets 97 years
    • Guinea and Lebanon: Something Fishy

    Number 29 - February 2009

    • Venezuela Drops Out: The Withdrawal Method
    • Guinea Coup: Something New or Déjà vu?
    • Zimbabwe Diamond Atrocities: Kimberley Process not Interested in Human Rights
    • Is Congo Burning? Yet another Resource Conflict
    • KP Plenary Meets in India: Venezuela “Settled”
    • Ralph Hazleton

    Number 28 - October 2008

    • Venezuela Saga Continues
    • KP Ineptitude Endangers Global System
    • Rekindled War in DRC
    • ‘Porous borders’ just an excuse: PAC Releases 2008 Diamond Review
    • Kimberley Statistics Revealed: ‘Limited Utility’ says Critic
    • Liberians follow Taylor Trial
    • US Toughens Diamond Regulations
    • Sierra Leone: A New Era of Reform?

    Number 27 - June 2008

    • Venezuela shames Kimberley; mocks vacillating committees
    • Merchant of death arrested; caught in classic sting operation
    • Another warlord set for trial; Bemba arrest sends important signal
    • DRC mining contracts review published
    • Taylor’s missing millions
    • Côte d’Ivoire: Conflict diamonds continue
    • New DDI Publication on Sierra Leone

    Number 26 - February 2008

    • Taylor War Crimes Trial Begins: PAC’s Ian Smillie is First Witness
    • Kimberley Process Annual Plenary: NGO Participation Increases – But Funding Problems Remain
    • DDI Appoints Executive Director
    • Venezuela Agrees to KP Visit
    • Congolese Diamond Reforms Remain Elusive: Diamonds Earn Diggers $1 per Day
    • Diamond Riches Contribute Little to Angolan Development: Management and Human Rights Problems Persist
    • DDI Workshop in Sierra Leone: Standards & Guidelines an Important Step

    Number 25 - October 2007

    • Internal debates blight Kimberley Process
    • Taylor trial delayed until January 2008
    • Book Reviews: Doug Farah’s “Merchant of Death”, and R.T. Naylor’s “Satanic Purses: Money, Myth and Misinformation in the War on Terror”
    • Is conflict bad for private firms?
    • MediaWatch
    • “Blood Rubies” and the Burmese Junta
    • Conflict diamonds go to school

    Number 24 - July 2007

    • Venezuela attacks PAC: inaction damages Kimberley Process: NGOs
    • Worries about illicit trade: KP effectiveness questioned
    • Freetown Verdict: first diamond war convictions
    • Taylor trial begins: war and crimes against humanity
    • Liberia : UN diamond embargo lifted; joins KP
    • DDI : G8 endorsement; DDI appoints new board
    • “To Have and Have Not”:  new Global Witness Report
    • Côte d’Ivoire fighting continues: peace deal and amnesty not working

    Number 23 - March 2007

    • Zimbabwe diamond rush turns poisonous, accusations lead to nationalization plan
    • Diamond smuggling in Venezuela, four month failure to communicate
    • Global Witness researcher arrested in Angola, espionage charges denied
    • “Blood Diamond” fears fade, big challenges remain
    • DRC: UN Peacekeeping Mission extended, report finds natural resources fuelling new conflicts
    • Tucson gem show arrests, “rare event”
    • Canada supports EITI
    • The african “Blood Diamond” film, “Ezra” wins Golden Stallion Award

    Number 22 - December 2006

    • Diamond controls in Venezuela: 100% KP "non-compliant"
    • Kimberley Process 2006: Collapse averted
    • Suddenly this winter; diamonds, diamonds everywhere: A guide
    • Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana: KP takes tough stand on conflict diamonds
    • Conflict diamonds: What percentage?
    • Blood diamond: What the reviewers say

    Number 21 - October 2006

    • Brazilian Fraud wider than originally believed
    • Conflict diamonds transit Ghana
    • USGAO report on conflict diamonds
    • Conflict diamonds go to the movies
    • WDC Launches new website about diamonds
    • ARM consultation on fair trade artisanal gold

    Number 20 - June 2006

    • Massive Brazilian Diamond Fraud
    • South American diamond exports in disarray
    • Charles Taylor in prison
    • Kouwenhoven war crimes trial ends
    • Diamond Development Initiative issues first report
    • Major changes afoot in Belgium : Leveling the commercial playing field
    • The two Congos : Intimidation and threats against transparency activists

    Number 19 - February 2006

    • Côte d'ivoire's Conflict Diamonds: UN Security Council Imposes Worldwide Embargo
    • Diamond Development Initiative, Successful Accra Meeting
    • Kimberley Process Winds Up Third Year
    • Congolese Diamonds, Peace And Development: New Pac Report
    • Africa's Largest Peacekeeping Operation Ends:  Unamsil Closed As Of January 1
    • Liberia: Hope for a Better Future Africa's First Woman President; Taylor's Shadow
    • Polishing Diamonds In Africa, De Beers Faces Major Change

    Number 18 - September 2005

    • Diamond Development Initiative begins
    • PAC uncovers million dollar Brazilian diamond smuggling fraud
    • Liberia diamond sanctions extended
    • Diamond under-valuation in Dubai
    • UN Peacekeepers set to leave Sierra Leone
    • Partnership Africa Canada call for papers

    Number 17 - May 2005

    • Liberia not yet ready for diamonds
    • World's poorest country makes diamond headway 
    • Terrorist financing & diamonds 
    • Angolan credibility plummets

    Number 16 - February 2005

    • Kimberley Process Monitoring
    • Stop the Bafflegab on Statistics
    • Weak Controls and ''Poverty Diamonds'' 
    • Sierra Leone Truth and Reconcialiation Commission

    Number 15 - October 2004

    • Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. Charges and Countercharges Abound
    • Charles Taylor Saga. Warlord Continues to Evade Justice
    • De Beers Clears the Decks but Waters Remain Muddy. Legal Briefs: USA and DRC
    • Special PAC report. Liberia: Diamonds Without Maps

    Number 14 - June 2004

    • Lebanon Dropped From Kimberley Process
    • Angolan Diamond Expulsions
    • Greater Transparency Required: Us Treasury Department Tells Industry
    • DR Congo Diamond Annual Review
    • Sierra Leone: UNAMSIL To Remain UNtil June 2005

    Number 13 - March 2004

    • Liberia Update: Diamond Sanctions to be Lifted?
    • Marriott Tackeles Illicit Diamonds
    • Sierra Leone Diamond Annual Review
    • Meeus Attacks Canada
    • Major Increase in Legal Diamonds Exports

    Number 12 - December 2003

    • Sun City Progress: Kimberley Process Starts to Grow Teeth
    • ICC Targets Blood Diamonds
    • Charles Taylor Continues to Evade Justice
    • Congo & Liberia Panel Reports
    • Russian Diamond Crackdown?
    • TNCs in Conflict-prone Zones

    Number 11 - September 2003

    • New Kimberley Membership List Announced
    • Central African Republic Review
    • Breakthrough on Statistics
    • Sierra Leone Struggles for Control
    • Liberia: Taylor Resigns
    • Books, Publications and more

    Number 10 - June 2003

    • Progress at Kimberley Meeting
    • UN Liberia Sanctions Renewed
    • Anglo American and De Beers: $6bn. Apartheid Lawsuit
    • Congloese NGOs Slam Security Council, Belgium
    • Lebanese Attack PAC Report
    • Sierra Leone Special Court
    • New Publications

    Number 9- March 2003

    • Confusion Greets KP Startup
    • Security Council Up-date
    • World Diamond Council Releases Kimberley Guide
    • Diamond Peace Alliance Inaugurated in Sierra Leone
    • New Publications
    • Campaign Information, Books, Mediawatch

    Number 8- November 2002

    • Kimberley Certification Scheme Agreed
    • DRC Report Condemns Pillage of Diamonds, Natural Resources
    • 'Diamond Relief Fund' for Poor Producers
    • UN Liberia Panel Reports
    • New Reports from Diamonds and Human Security Project

    Number 7- September 2002

    • Kimberley Process and the G8 - Better Accountability and Greater Transparency
    • Al Qaeda and the Quality of Terror - Editorial
    • Congolese NGOs Form a New Network
    • Kimberley Process - EC Preparations & US Response
    • Canadian Police Report: Terrorist Threat Real

    Number 6 - May 2002

    • Kimberley Process: Partial Breakthrough
    • GAO Repeats Condemnation of Weak Kimberley Agreement
    • US Legislation: The Beat Goes On
    • Liberia Panel Reports
    • Angola Peace Hopes

    Number 5 - March 2002

    • GAO Condemns Weak Kimberley Provisions
    • 'Peace' in Sierra Leone
    • Hall and Wolf Blast US Inaction
    • UN Debate on Conflict Diamonds
    • Australian Diamond Industry Under Threat

    Number 4 - December 2001

    • Kimberley 'Agreement': Half Measures
    • Al Qaeda: The Diamond Connection
    • UN Expert Panel Reports: Illicit Diamond Trade Continues Unabated
    • U.S. Passes Conflict Diamond Bill

    Number 3 - October 2001

    • Conflict Diamonds are Forever? Major NGO disappointment with Kimberley Process
    • Conflict Diamonds: Crossing European Borders
    • Stop Blood Diamonds Now! Civil society support for a meaningful certification process
    • Sierra Leone: War Over?
    • Certification and Legislation updates

    Number 2 - June 2001

    • Kimberly process stalled?
    • Tentative peace deal in Sierra Leone
    • DRC expert panel releases report
    • De Beers suspends Angola operations
    • Democratic Republic of Congo: 2.5 million 'Excess' deaths in 33 months
    • UN Sanctions on Libera
    • Conflicting diamond battle in US Congress
    • Conflict diamonds: Polls guage public reaction

    Number 1 - April 2001

    • Research Project Expands
    • US Warns Liberia
    • Namibian Diamond Mining in Congo
    • UN Deadline for Congo Troop Withdrawals
    • Security Council Discusses UNITA Sanctions
    • Kimberley Process Expands