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UN Resolution Calls for KP Reforms
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The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has enacted aresolution calling for reforms to increase the effectiveness of the KimberleyProcess (KP), the World Diamond Council (WDC) said. The European Union proposed the resolution...
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Rough Markets
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Mar 05, 2019
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Rapaport News
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Kimberley Process Begins Two-Year Review
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The Kimberley Process (KP) has entered a two-year review of itsoperations, enabling the organization to evaluate current needs and improve theway it tackles issues. The European Union, the KP’s chair for 2018 under theleadership...
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Mining
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Mar 12, 2018
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Rapaport News
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UN, De Beers Look to Empower Botswana Women
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De Beers and United Nations Women have pledged approximately $755,000 (BWP 8 million) over the next three years to support women entrepreneurs in select villages in Botswana’s Okavango Delta and Kweneng District. The initiative, which...
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Mining
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Nov 09, 2017
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Rapaport News
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UN Urges Wider Kimberley Process Participation
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The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted aresolution that called for greater participation in the Kimberley Process (KP) toprevent conflict diamonds from entering the mainstream market.The declaration emphasizes the need to stop...
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Rough Markets
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Feb 05, 2017
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Rapaport News
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KP Approves Plan for UN Secretariat
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Attendees at the Kimberley Process (KP) plenary in Dubaivoted in favor of a proposal to set up a United Nations-mandated permanentsecretariat to oversee the return of excluded countries to the diamond trade.More than 300 delegates also gave the go-ahead to KP chairAhmed Bin...
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Fair Trade
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Nov 17, 2016
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Rapaport News
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Angolan Court Slaps Additional Charges on Marques de Morais
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Rafael Marques de Morais, who exposed government and trading corruption across Angola's diamond industry with the book "Blood Diamonds: Torture and Corruption in Angola," faces additional defamation charges in his home country. Marques...
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Financial-Legal
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Mar 25, 2015
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Jeff Miller
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UN Lifts Diamond Ban on Cote d'Ivoire
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The United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously approved removing an export ban on rough diamonds from Cote d'Ivoire. The resolution immediately terminated diamond sanctions that were imposed in 2005 and it noted that Cote...
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Rough Markets
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Apr 29, 2014
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Jeff Miller
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UN Envoy Urges Rebels to Break From Armed Groups
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The head of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, warned rebel fighters in the diamond-rich country to surrender without delay and to join the disarmament process or face consequences....
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Fair Trade
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Mar 11, 2014
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Jeff Miller
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Hopeful Atmosphere After M23 Defeat Vanishes in the DRC
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The United Nations (UN) reported that efforts to attain peace and stability in the diamond-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have again reached a crucial juncture as senior officials called upon all parties in the...
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Fair Trade
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Jan 13, 2014
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Jeff Miller
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UN Welcomes Agreement to End M23 Rebellion in DRC
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The United Nations (UN) special envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region welcomed an announcement by the M23 rebel group that it is ending the insurgency against the diamond-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The...
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Fair Trade
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Nov 05, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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UN Warns of Grave Human Rights Violations in CAR
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The United Nations (UN) expressed deep concern at deteriorating security and atrocious crimes in the diamond-rich Central African Republic (CAR). While the country has experienced decades of instability, violence flared up in December when the...
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Fair Trade
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Oct 01, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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UN's Blue Helmets on 'High Alert' in DRC
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United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are on high alert and prepared to use force in order to protect civilians in Goma from an advancing rebellion by the March 23 movement (M23). The top...
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Fair Trade
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Jul 15, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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UN Security Remains Priority in Cote d'Ivoire
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On the eve of a meeting between the United Nations (UN) and the governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia, security remains a priority ahead of local elections and following an outbreak of violence in March. The UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire...
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Fair Trade
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Apr 05, 2013
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Jeff Miller
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U.N. Calls for Ceasefire in Central African Republic
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The United Nations (U.N.) has called for an immediate truce between rival groups in the Central African Republic fighting for control over diamond mines, according to a statement obtained by AFP. The statement declared that the U.N. expressed its strong concern over the violent fighting...
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Fair Trade
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Sep 20, 2011
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Ricci Dipshan
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