Press statement on Kimberley Process Intersessional Meeting Botswana, Kasane – 30 June 2022 In its closing remarks at the Kimberley Process (KP) Intersessional meeting in Botswana, the KP Civil Society Coalition...
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Closing remarks of the Civil Society Coalition at the Kimberley Process 2022 Intersessional meeting in Botswana
In its closing remarks at the Kimberley Process (KP) Intersessional meeting in Botswana, the KP Civil Society Coalition (CSC) deplored the incapacity of the certification scheme to address its demons. It finds the KP...
Civil society opening speech at the 2022 Kimberley Process Intersessional Meeting
From 20-24 June 2022, representatives of governments, the diamond industry and civil society meet in Kasane, Botswana for the Kimberley Process (KP) intersessional meeting. This meeting comes at a critical time for the...
Kimberley Process should stop turning blind eye to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and take fight against conflict diamonds seriously
The Kimberley Process (KP) being unable to even discuss whether it should continue certifying Russian diamonds as conflict-free, proves what the KP Civil Society Coalition (CSC) has been denouncing for years, namely...
State of play and mapping of diamond mining sites in Eastern Cameroon
This report is part of a pan-African research project called Grassroots research on local diamond mining impact which was run in eight countries by ten African member organisations from the Kimberley...
The challenges characterizing Sierra Leone’s artisanal diamond mining sector – and why the sector should be formalized
This report is part of a pan-African research project called Grassroots research on local diamond mining impact which was run in eight countries by ten African member organisations from the Kimberley...
