Eli Clifton
2 November 2009
Washington — The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human rights violations stemming from Zimbabwe's lucrative diamond industry.
Special Rapporteur Manfred Nowak had been invited to Zimbabwe by Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition party leader and prime minister, but Tsvangirai cut off cooperation with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF, leading to Nowak's deportation.
Upon his arrival in Harare on Oct. 29, Nowak was denied entry to Zimbabwe and sent back to Johannesburg.
"The president feels it is not a good thing if an independent human rights expert is assessing the situation of torture and ill-treatment in the country," said Nowak at his arrival in Johannesburg.
The government-controlled Herald newspaper described Nowak as trying "to gatecrash into the country".
While Nowak's high-profile deportation has brought scrutiny to recent accusations of human rights abuses and torture conducted under Mugabe, last week also brought a strong statement from the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition, saying that Zimbabwe was failing to meet international standards set forth by the Kimberly Process (KP) and should be suspended from importing and exporting rough diamonds.
The KP is a certification scheme under which diamond-producing countries have mechanisms in place to ensure that diamonds are "conflict free".
Members of the KP are holding their annual plenary this week in Namibia and the KP's Civil Society Coalition, whose members include Global Witness, Partnership Africa Canada and Green Advocates (Liberia), are calling on KP member countries to act on the ongoing allegations of human rights abuses surrounding the Zimbabwean diamond industry.
"Since the discovery in 2006 of significant alluvial diamond deposits in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe, controls over the diamond sector have been nonexistent and communities in and around the diamond fields have borne the brunt of a series of brutal measures to restore state control over the area," read a statement from Global Witness.
"The authorities have failed to stop the military from carrying out abuses and profiting from the illicit trade in diamonds, effectively condoning - and perhaps even encouraging - the looting and attendant violence against civilians," the statement continued.
The legitimacy of the KP and its certification of "conflict free" diamonds will be put in jeopardy should the member countries choose not to act on the abuses occurring in Zimbabwe, says Global Witness.
The Civil Society Coalition highlights the need for KP reforms in: binding human rights provisions for KP members; permitting faster decision-making in the KP to facilitate swift action; forming an independent statistical and research analysis capability; and ensuring that diamond profits are at least partly used to promote development initiatives.
"One of the things we're concerned about is the fact that it calls into question the credibility of the Kimberly Process if governments are unwilling to take action against countries which aren't in compliance with the minimum requirements," Corinna Gilfillan, head of the U.S. office of Global Witness, told IPS.
"Given the challenges we found in getting Zimbabwe suspended, we think there should be more explicit provisions introduced to ensure basic human rights in the diamond sector," she said.
A KP review mission in July found that Zimbabwe was not meeting KP standards and recommended that it not be allowed to import or export diamonds under the KP process, "until such time as a KP team determines that minimum standards have been met".
The team found gross human rights violations over the past year since the military took control of the eastern Marange diamond fields.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported in June that the military had killed wildcat diamond diggers in Marange in late 2008 and was profiting from the diamond trade.
The Zimbabwean government has denied any killings by the military in Marange.
"[D]iamond mining in the eastern part of Zimbabwe is not helping in any way in the resuscitation of the economy or contributing to resources the country needs. A huge part of that is being siphoned to associates of the government or the military," Briggs Bomba, director of campaigns at Africa Action, told IPS.
"The proper accountability, human rights protections and security systems have to be put in place because of the serious human rights abuses which have taken place," he said.
The KP Civil Society Coalition also warned that the KP's indecisiveness in responding to abuses in Zimbabwe was distracting member governments from dealing with reports of human rights violations in Côte d'Ivoire.
A U.N. report last week found that Ivorian conflict diamonds - against which the U.N. has imposed sanctions - continue to be exported via neighboring states and laundered into legitimate KP trade.
The KP is made up of 48 participants representing 74 countries - the European Community counting as a single participant - and includes all major rough diamond producing, exporting or importing nations.
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- THE TRUTH ABOUT DIAMONDS –
Did You Know That The Robbers Have Warehouses Full Of 55 Gallon Drums Each Full Of Raw Uncut Diamonds ?
The Wicked Are Using The Same Schemes On Us. : 1) They Hoard Riches ; Controlling The Supply So We’ll Think The Supply Is Low 2) This Scheme Helps Them To Get A Higher Price & Deceives Most Of Us Into Believing That Things ( Such As Diamonds, Gold, Oil, Etc..) Are In Short Supply & Even Due To Run Out.
Diamonds Are In Abundance And Their Supply Is Being Controlled By Persons Under The Control Of Spiritual Wickedness In High Places (Ephesians 6:12) .
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THEY COME TO :
STEAL OUR ECONOMY
KILL OUR INITIATIVE TO BE SELF-SUFFICIENT
DESTROY OUR FAMILIES
1) INFERIORITY = CURRENCY EXCHANGE
Currency Exchange is designed to puff up certain peoples and nations over others. The numbers are constantly telling some that they are inferior to others. The problem intensifies when those being manipulated by this financial scam buy in to this wicked scheme.
What’s the solution to INFERIORITY CURRENCY EXCHANGE ? Stop giving away our souls one piece of money ( dollar , pound, franc, rand, deniro, rupal, euro, Chinese renminbi, rupee, Russian ruble,etc..) at-a-time .
Do research on what price your product gets in the so-called First World countries. And demand that price. This will not work unless people at the local areas do this together. Form Co-Ops and agree to charge the prices you deserve.
2) INFERIORITY = Pay by Time
There is another system used to oppress people that feeds the business owners with a lust for MORE profit. One year they may have profits of 50%, the next year they may have profits of 100%, the next year their profits may only be 75%. The system in the world will consider that going from 100% profits to 75% profits is bad for business.
How is that bad ? Profits are profits ! Many businesses have different levels of pay for the same workers.; levels such as :
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I suggest that EVERY WORKER SHOULD BE PAID A LIVING WAGE. The Minimum Wage is like a financial ball and chain ; only giving those receiving it just enough to live to see the next day.
The Living Wage allows workers to live, invest, spend, save, and thrive. We can dream about having our own businesses , then wake up and attain our dreams. This is great for the businesses that pay Living Wages. For this creates new customers and new generations of customers.
As long as the system of Living Wages is in place, there will be a thriving economy and a blooming world full of optimistic activities. But it will only happen when business owners see the benefit of paying more pennies to make more dollars ! Which of you business owners will have the insight, recognition, roots, understanding, initiative, moxy, & compassion to make the step most are afraid to make.
1. The Bakken Oil Field Find
2. 55 gallon drums fulls of unprocessed diamonds.
* These are just a few of the suppressed world riches this beautiful world created by God (Jehovah, Father of Jesus Christ)..
3. Minister Lindsey Williams has known for 30 years of a major oil find in Alaska.
* He says that he sat in on meetings of the rich and powerful. These men decided not to use this oil to help America.
* Beware Africans, the wolves of deception are always around riches.
* Hosea said we perish for two reasons. Most people only remember one reason why we perish.
- Hosea said MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
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(iii) – Janine Roberts :Glitter & Greed : The Secret World of The Diamond Cartel
Our only enemies are in Hell , waiting for their life-sentence of damnation.
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"Uplift":
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Life is fun......... especially when you have cretins like "uplift" to deconstruct!
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