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A conflict diamond (also called a blood diamond) is a diamond mined in a war zone and sold, usually clandestinely, in order to finance an insurgent or invading army's war efforts. Nongovernmental organizations have also alleged the use of these diamonds in financing the September 11, 2001 attacks. Diamond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
An act of war - the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan during World War II War is a state of widespread conflict between states, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of violent, physical force between combatants or upon civilians. ...
The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated attacks carried out in the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. ...
The United Nations has decried the sale of conflict diamonds, arguing that their trade finances armies in fighting against legitimate governments and perpetrating human rights abuses, and prolongs devastating wars. It points to the UNITA rebels in Angola and to the Revolutionary United Front rebels in Sierra Leone (who it states are financed by the government of Liberia, also through diamond sales) as purveyors of conflict diamonds. The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ...
Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...
UNITA sticker The União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) is an Angolan political faction. ...
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The UN is attempting to implement certification procedures to decrease the number of illicit diamonds on the world market. The World Diamond Council adopted at Antwerp on July 19, 2000, a resolution to strengthen the diamond industry's ability to block sales of conflict diamonds. The World Diamond Council (also known during its prototype period as the International Diamond Council) is an organisation consisting of representatives from diamond manufacturing and diamond trading companies. ...
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July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
In 2002, the UN approved the Kimberley Process scheme aimed at preventing conflict diamonds entering the market. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is a scheme designed to prevent conflict diamonds (also known as blood diamonds) entering the mainstream rough diamond market. ...
Countries such as Canada have used concerns about conflict diamonds to present domestically-produced diamonds as an ethical alternative which avoids the risk of unknowingly purchasing a blood diamond. The same argument is used by makers of cultured diamonds such as Gemesis and Apollo Diamond. Ethical consumerism is the practice of boycotting products which a consumer believes to be associated with unnecessary exploitation or other unethical behaviour. ...
Synthetic diamond is diamond produced through chemical or physical processes in a laboratory. ...
The Gemesis Corporation is a privately-held company started by founder Carter Clarke in Sarasota, Florida. ...
Apollo Diamond, based in Boston, produces nearly flawless single crystal diamond wafers and crystals for the optoelectronics, nanotechnology, and consumer gem markets. ...
Other substances are sometimes sold the same way as conflict diamonds, such as coltan. Coltan (columbite-tantalite) is a black tar-like mineral. ...
Conflict Diamonds in Fiction and Culture
A large part of the plot of the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day revolved around the smuggling of conflict diamonds. James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy introduced by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ...
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The remix to Chicago-based rapper Kanye West's rap song "Diamonds (from Sierra Leone)" (which has a sample of the Bond theme Diamonds Are Forever, performed by Dame Shirley Bassey) is a direct reference to conflict diamonds in which Sierra Leone is one of two nations involved. Kanye West Kanye West (pronounced Kahn-yay) (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American music producer and rapper from Chicago, Illinois. ...
A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Diamonds Are Forever, published in 1956, is the fourth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ...
Shirley Bassey in 2000 Dame Shirley Bassey (born January 8, 1937), is a Welsh singer, perhaps best known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). ...
Another rapper by the name of Lupe Fiasco, also has a song called "Conflict Diamonds".
For many people, this was their first mainstream exposure to the term and the concept. The topic of conflict diamond was also the subject of an episode of Law & Order, "Soldier of Fortune". Law & Order is the longest-running primetime drama currently on American television. ...
References - Bergner, Daniel (2003). In the Land of Magic Soldiers. New York: Picador. ISBN 0374266530.
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