ACTION: Diamonds
Details
Human rights activists will be educating shoppers and jewellers about the continuing trade in blood diamond from Israel.
Where: Hatton Garden
Time: 11.00 am - 4 pm
Travel Information - Chancery Lane (Central Line) is the nearest tube.
17,341,45,46, 25 buses are running every 5 minutes.
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Despite assurances from jewellers and others with a vested interest in the diamond industry, the trade in blood diamonds never ended ? it flourished under the guise of so-called conflict free diamonds.
Consumers have been deceived and conned into believing that the only blood diamonds are those in the pockets of gun-slinging, sabre-wielding black African rebels. However, the trade in blood diamonds that fund government forces is flourishing ? a fact confirmed recently when the Kimberley Process, ignoring pleads from NGOs, approved the export of diamonds from the Marange area of Zimbabwe where government forces stand accused of gross human rights violations including, the killing 200 people in 2008.
Of even greater concern is the trade in diamonds crafted in Israel where revenue form the diamonds industry is a major source of funding for the apartheid regime that stands accused of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity by the UN HRC.
Israel is one of the world?s leading manufacturers/exporters of cut & polished diamonds. Jewellers deceitfully claim Israeli diamonds are conflict free ? a totally unjustified assertion given Israel?s record of gross human rights violations and breaches of international human rights law and humanitarian law.