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3 paź 2024 · blood diamond, as defined by the United Nations (UN), any diamond that is mined in areas controlled by forces opposed to the legitimate, internationally recognized government of a country and that is sold to fund military action against that government.
- Kimberley Process
Kimberley Process, a certification scheme, active since...
- Kimberley Process
Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in certain areas, or to label an ...
6 kwi 2021 · Stanford historian traces the colonial origins of conflict diamonds in Namibia. New book by Stanford historian Steven Press unearths previously obscured connections between German colonial activities and the world diamond market.
8 lis 2002 · Conflict diamonds got their start in 1992 in the bush war of Angola, where UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, seeking new ways to finance his army, looked to the country’s vast diamond fields to extend the smuggling business that his rebel movement had pioneered in the 1970s and 1980s.
5 gru 2011 · The United Nations defines conflict diamonds as “…diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments, and are...
Conflict diamonds originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate or internationally recognized governments. Conflicts in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone were fuelled in part by the trade in rough diamonds.
5 lip 2007 · Conflict diamonds are officially defined by the United Nations as diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments, and that are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments.
