Author: Partnership Africa Canada
Publisher: Partnership Africa Canada
Publication Date: March 1, 2009
Copyright: 2009
Language: en
Category: Zimbabwe, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Mining, Economy, Business and Finance
This report describes the role of diamonds in the Zimbabwean economy and their place in the country’s increasingly repressive governance. It describes growing evidence of smuggling, the militarization of diamond resources and the killing of dozens of unarmed diamond diggers by the police and armed forces of Zimbabwe. The report describes the lacklustre role in all of this played by the Kimberley Process, the multilateral body designed to regulate the world’s trade in rough diamonds, but whose members lack the initiative and the will required to investigate smuggling and non compliance, and who lack the courage required to denounce gross human rights violations in the diamond industry.
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