Next week (June 18-22) the European Union hosts governments, the diamond industry, and nongovernmental groups in the diamond-trading city of Antwerp to take stock of the Kimberley Process, the certification process set up nearly two decades ago to end the trade in “blood..
- Juliane Kippenberg
- HRW
But the Kimberley Process is not up to the task.
The European Union-currently the chair of the Kimberley Process-should push for change to improve the protection of human rights starting with mining and throughout the…