Author: Global Witness
Title: Loupe Holes: Illicit Diamonds in the Kimberley Process
Summary: 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 and prevent the trade in conflict diamonds that cost so many lives during the last two decades. This paper reviews the issues around illicit flows of rough diamonds, particularly in countries facing serious challenges in controlling the artisanal mining sector. It presents the results of a survey assessing how participant countries are enforcing KP controls and monitoring the dismond industry, and puts forward specific reommendations for changing the way the KP is managed and implemented.
Details: Washington, DC: Global Witness Publishing; Ottawa, ONT: Partnership Africa Canada, 2008. 6p.
Source: Internet Resource
Year: 2008
Country: Africa
URL:
Shelf Number: 118576
Keywords:
Conflict DiamondsIllicit DiamondsIllicit Trade |
Author: Dietrich, Christian
Title: Hard Currency: The Criminalized Diamond Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its Neighbours
Summary: Central Africa's main diamond exporters - Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic (CAR), and the Republic of the Congo - are among the least developed countries in the world. Diamonds are one of the most easily obtained, most easily transported forms of hard currency, for state and non-state actors alike. Inadequate controls in neighbouring and regional transit countries such as Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa, and in trading countries like Belgium, Israel and India, along with secrecy within the industry, make diamonds - licit or illicit - easy to sell. The correlation between poverty, instability, protracted warfare, violence and diamonds suggests that the region is afflicted, rather than blessed by its diamond wealth. The report links the illicit diamond trade to the wars in the wars in Angola and the Congo, along with other conflicts in Central Africa.
Details: Ottawa: Partnership Africa Canada, 2002. 60p.
Source: Internet Resource; The Diamonds and Human Security ProjectOccasional Paper #4
Year: 2002
Country: Africa
URL:
Shelf Number: 119403
Keywords:
Illegal TradeIllicit Diamonds |
