Outside Kimberley Process Meeting June 20, 2010, Tel Aviv: Martin Rapaport, Chairman of the Rapaport Group has begun a 3 day fast outside the Kimberley Process (KP) Meetings. The water-only fast began at sundown Sunday, June 20 and will continue until sundown Wednesday, June 24 following the close of the KP meetings in Tel Aviv,

Introduction: This is an ongoing documentation of a series of dialogs between members of our Manufacturing Group, charged with the task of developing exceptional standards for jewelry manufacturing. Follow this link, https://fairjewelry.org/madison-dialogue-manufacturing-committee for full review of past discussions, including the entire principles and standards document that we are reviewing. After reviewing this principle, I proposed

Recently, Ute Decker, an ethical jeweler from the UK, emailed me a PDF of a green jewelry manufacturing guide which I had never seen — from a agency half a mile from my own shop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The document was produced in 2002, far ahead of the current green curve, as part