Kimberley Process Certification Scheme

The KPCS was formed to provide a system of warranties and chain-of-custody practices that would assure buyers that the rough diamonds they purchased were not financing violence by rebel movements and their allies seeking to undermine…
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The discovery of diamonds in June 2006 by villagers in the Marange area in rural Chiadzwa, 90km southwest of Mutare, has been a mixed blessing for Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe police and private security guards employed by mining companies in the Marange diamond fields are shooting, beating and unleashing attack dogs on poor, local unlicensed miners.
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Never has there been so much pressure for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to reform itself than now, since its formation. Launched in January 2003, to prevent the trade in diamonds that fund conflict, the KP scheme has had its…
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Countering reports that the Kimberley Process has given Zimbabwe a green light to sell diamonds from the controversial Marange field, the World Diamond Council says such exports have not yet received formal and final approval.
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Zimbabwe will hold two auctions this year to sell its stockpile of diamonds mined between 2006 and 2009. The country was granted permission to conduct sales and export diamonds by the Kimberley Process.
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Diamond Monitoring Body Should Demand an End to Forced Labor, Smuggling, and Corruption (Johannesburg, October 29, 2009) – The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, scheduled to meet in Swakopmund, Namibia, from November 2 to 5, 2009,…
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