Diamonds are not my best friend...
First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants...
it's up to the consumer to convience themselves a diamond is conflict-free...
By 2001, Sierra Leone was officially the poorest country in the world. Yet a 2002 report ranked Sierra Leone 11th of the world’s diamond producers with a total value of $70 million and 0.2% of the world’s market (Australia and Botswana are the world’s leading diamond producers with 50% of the market between them). Most of Sierra Leone’s diamond trade in the 1990s went overseas illegally to finance the RUF armed resistance to the government.
There has been little change in the use of child soldiers in African conflicts over the past year despite United Nations calls for the practice to stop, according to a new report.
is a big shiny rock on your finger worths the deaths of million of african men, women, and children?
it's up to the consumer to convience themselves a diamond is conflict-free...
By 2001, Sierra Leone was officially the poorest country in the world. Yet a 2002 report ranked Sierra Leone 11th of the world’s diamond producers with a total value of $70 million and 0.2% of the world’s market (Australia and Botswana are the world’s leading diamond producers with 50% of the market between them). Most of Sierra Leone’s diamond trade in the 1990s went overseas illegally to finance the RUF armed resistance to the government.
There has been little change in the use of child soldiers in African conflicts over the past year despite United Nations calls for the practice to stop, according to a new report.
is a big shiny rock on your finger worths the deaths of million of african men, women, and children?