Introducción: This news release from CAFOD documents how AngloGold’s latest action, the lack of community consent and the potential displacement of thousands of small scale artisan miners. AngloGold is a member of the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), the big boys club in the jewelry sector. The RJC has been busy over the last few years

Martin Rapaport, is arguably the most important figure in the diamond sector, and a central figures in the fair trade jewelry movement and one of the key figures in the initiation of the Kimberley Certification Process (KP). Last week, Rapaport resigned from the World Diamond Council , and gave the KP its most high profile

To many First Nations people in the North West Territories, Canadian diamonds are full of conflict. Despite the promise of jobs and the Impact Benefit Agreements which gave money to communities, there were some who opposed the mines, anticipating the ecological havoc on their ancestral lands. As this article in Canadian Mining Watch details, la