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Symposium: Human Rights in the Diamond Supply Chain

A Discussion About Human Rights Violations in the Diamond Supply Chain Beyond the Kimberley Process Definition of Conflict

If you trade in diamonds, you have a responsibility to ensure that every diamond you trade has been produced and sold responsibly.

Human rights violations are occurring now in diamond mining communities producing Kimberley Process certified diamonds. This makes it impossible to distinguish diamonds tainted with human rights abuses from responsibly sourced diamonds, unless they are certified as recycled or sourced from specific mines.

On Wednesday, October 7 and Thursday, October 8, at 11am Eastern each day, The Chicago Responsible Jewelry Conference, in cooperation with Human Rights Watch, International Peace Information Service (IPIS) and the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition, will host two one-hour webinars that shine a light on the current violations and raise ideas and suggestions for jewelry industry assistance.

During the first session, on Wednesday, October 7, representatives from Human Rights Watch and the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition will interview community members from Zimbabwe and Lesotho. These direct testimonies represent a rare opportunity to hear first-hand, without the filters of industry and government, what it is like to live life in the shadow of a mining operation that is being run without regard for the health and welfare of the communities around it.

During the second session, on Thursday, October 8, a panel of experts from Human Rights Watch, IPIS, Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition, and Responsible Jewelry Transformative will discuss the reasons that human rights problems continue to exist in the diamond supply chain, how we can have more transparency in our communications regarding diamond mining communities, and how the jewelry industry can step up to its responsibilities to improve the diamond sector.

Panelists and interviewers include Juliane Kippenberg, Associate Director of the Children’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch; Thabo Lerotholi, Maluti Community Development Forum and Lesotho representative to the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition; Hans Merket, IPIS Researcher; Shamiso Mtisi, Deputy Director at the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association and Zimbabwe coordinator of the CSO Coalition; and Susan Wheeler, CEO and Founder of the Responsible Jewelry Transformative.

To learn more and register, please visit: responsiblejewelryconference.com/index.php/events/2020-diamond-symposium

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