{"id":3987,"date":"2021-06-21T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T11:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2021-06-21T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:29:08","slug":"2021-intersessional-meeting-opening-speech-by-shamiso-mtisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/activite\/2021-intersessional-meeting-opening-speech-by-shamiso-mtisi\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Intersessional Meeting &#8211; Opening Speech by Shamiso Mtisi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During today\u2019s opening session of the Kimberley Process (KP) Intersessional meeting, Shamiso Mtisi, the Coordinator of the KP Civil Society Coalition, addressed the 55 KP participating countries and observers. This Intersessional meeting, which for the first time takes place in a virtual format due to COVID-19 restrictions, is the half-yearly gathering of the KP in preparation of the annual Plenary meeting in November. In his speech, which followed that of this year\u2019s Russian Chair and the President of the World Diamond Council, Shamiso Mtisi highlighted ongoing human rights abuses which the KP CSC has documented and called on industry and governments to keep these in mind throughout this week\u2019s discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It is our mission and responsibility to bring the voice of these marginalized communities to this forum, as we feel many of the discussions we are having here are so disconnected from this reality. [&#8230;] This is a call to all KP Participants and Observers to meaningfully address these concerns, so that we don\u2019t have to go back to our constituencies and explain that the KP has no relevance for them.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Bad practices and bad actors contaminating the diamond trade are a threat to all of us. [&#8230;] An important question for this forum is how the KP will ensure that these abusers are held accountable for their actions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full opening speech here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/21.06-Opening-Speech-Intersessional.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Opening speech for 2121 kp intersessional meeting<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During today\u2019s opening session of the Kimberley Process (KP) Intersessional meeting, Shamiso Mtisi, the Coordinator of the KP Civil Society Coalition, addressed the 55 KP participating countries and observers. This Intersessional meeting, which for the first time takes place in a virtual format due to COVID-19 restrictions, is the half-yearly gathering of the KP in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[99,100],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activite","tag-kp-intersessional-fr","tag-kp-meeting-fr"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schermafbeelding-2021-06-21-om-12.48.56-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schermafbeelding-2021-06-21-om-12.48.56-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Jorinde van der Horst","author_link":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/author\/jorinde-van-der-horst\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kpcivilsociety.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}