How Do You Avoid Buying A Blood Diamond?
A blood diamond is loosely defined as a diamond mined in a war-torn area whose proceeds fund local insurgencies. In order to be a genuine blood diamond, however, the rebellions they fund must be against countries that are currently members of the U.N. Step 1 Get familiar with the Kimberley Process. The Kimberley Process was initiated in 2000 as a way to curb the funding of insurgencies across the globe. Do not live under the mistaken assumption that the Kimberley Process exists to protect the diamond miners from violence. That is not the case. It protects countries, not individuals. Step 2 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep2 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/5307044/unitednations_Full.jpg’); }); Understand that even the Kimberley Process has holes. The U.N has become very adept at “overlooking” discrepancies in the diamond distribution practices of many countries. For example, Lebanon currently exports more diamonds t
