. . INTRODUCTION: The Diamond Development Initiative is a dynamic and unique effort to address the problems of over a million artisanal diamond miners living in poverty. It brings NGOs, governments and the private sector together. The Board of Directors of DDI International is delighted to announce the appointment of Dorothée Gizenga as the organization’s

Last year on this blog I interviewed Michael Green, head of the Center of Environmental Health, a California NGO that pioneered the efforts to get lead out of jewelry. Now, the legislation that they supported has become law in California. Read the full story from JCK below. Calif. Lead in Jewelry Law to Expand March

In this article by Andy Hoffman of the Globe and Mail, we learn of an initiative to support children and small business in Peru and Columbia. Here is the link to the original article. From The Globe and Mail ANDY HOFFMAN, MINING REPORTER March 1, 2008: Former U.S. president Bill Clinton and Vancouver mining magnate