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For those who might not know, the Kimberly Process is a joint venture by the gov’t, the diamond industry, and civil society initiatives for the purpose of stemming the flow of conflict diamonds - rough diamonds that are used by rebels to finance wars against gov’ts.

Which no rational humanitarian can argue against being wonderful, at least ideally.

But in the process, many see a large degree of loopholes remaining. Namely in the continued existence of agriculturally decimating mining in areas that rape the land for any other use, child labor run at the cost of veritable slavery, and a general need of real independent management and monitoring … to name a few.

To which came to me upon some browsing, for some further information on possible oversight, the efforts of One Sky’s Blood Diamonds are for Never campaign. So that the preventative measures of the K.P. can at some point, hopefully, give some activities for other’s searching through the same questions raised here not a month ago. Because, as consumers, don’t you want to be able to trust the diamond industry enough to be able to live with what you wear? Because at what cost, can you afford to bling?

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