Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe | Oct. 9, 2006 Diamonds Responsible Minerals UN REPORT CONDEMNS CONFLICT DIAMOND EXPORTS | Sept. 28, 2006 Diamonds Responsible Minerals GAO report condemns weak US effort to combat conflict diamonds Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada call on the US government to enforce diamond law | June 14, 2006 Diamonds Responsible Minerals Stronger action needed by donors to help reform the DRC diamond sector As elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) approach, today Global Witness called on donor governments to do more to promote broad reforms in the DRC’s diamond sector. Global Witness’s recommendations, outlined in a new briefing document, are aimed at preventing diamonds from fuelling conflict and ensuring that diamond revenues contribute to the country’s development. | June 5, 2006 Diamonds Responsible Minerals More Rhetoric than Action: When will the diamond industry get serious about stopping conflict diamonds? The diamond industry is failing to deliver on its promises to keep conflict diamonds out of the legitimate trade and appears more worried about heading off bad publicity from the upcoming Leonardo DiCaprio film, The Blood Diamond, than meeting its pledges to the international community, the campaigning group Global Witness said today. | March 29, 2006 Diamonds Responsible Minerals GLOBAL WITNESS WELCOMES ARREST OF TAYLOR - WILL THIS END IMPUNITY IN WEST AFRICA? | Feb. 10, 2006 Diamonds Responsible Minerals NEW SHOPPING GUIDE ON CONFLICT DIAMONDS – JUST IN TIME FOR VALENTINE’S DAY Downloads new_shopping_guide_on_conflict_diamonds.doc | Nov. 15, 2005 Diamonds Responsible Minerals Making it Work: Why the Kimberley Process Must Do More to Stop Conflict Diamonds Press Release, 15 November 2005 Kimberley Process[i] Falls Short in Combating Conflict Diamonds Weak government controls are failing to stop diamonds from fuelling conflict, according to a new report by Global Witness.[ii] The report, ‘Making it Work: Why the Kimberley Process Must Do More to Stop Conflict Diamonds’,[iii] targets the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process Plenary starting today in Moscow.[iv] The report shows how: | Aug. 17, 2005 Diamonds Responsible Minerals DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE BEGINS DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE BEGINS New Approach to Africa’s Diamond Problems | June 7, 2005 Diamonds Responsible Minerals Five years on: diamond trade still at risk from conflict diamonds Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada press release | March 22, 2005 Diamonds Responsible Minerals Liberian timber industry and sanctions busting under international scrutiny Global Witness (1) welcomes the action by the Dutch authorities to target suspected Liberian sanctions violations, following the arrest and charging of Dutch national Gus Kouwenhoven on Monday 21 March 2005. Kouwenhoven has been charged with breaking the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) imposed arms embargo on Liberia, and is suspected of being linked with war crimes according to the Dutch prosecutorial authorities. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10