Zimbabwe: Call to suspend diamonds from the Kimberley Process

Civil society is calling for the suspension of Zimbabwe from the Kimberley Process, an international certification scheme to prevent conflict diamonds from entering the multibillion dollar market.

15 Dec 2008

Global Witness, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that led the campaign to set up the system, said in a statement on 12 December: "Members of the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition are calling upon the Kimberley Process to suspend Zimbabwe from the rough diamond certification scheme, in light of recent violence used by the government to take control of the Chiadzwa diamond fields [in Manicaland Province]."

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