Introduction: The World Gold Council (www.gold.org) represents 22 of the world’s gold mining companies, and 60% of new production. Recently, they have been working on a standards framework for conflict free gold. They have published two draft standards on their website. Here, Greg Valerio, co-founder of Fair Jewelry Action, responds to a letter to Aram

Introduction: The Dodd-Frank Bill, which aims to prohibit the use of rare metals and minerals that fund conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa, is drastically impacting the small scale miner. In fact, the legislation has put perhaps hundreds of thousands of small scale miners out of work. This number does not only include

In response to the fact that Kimberley Certification Processes does not assure a diamond free of human rights violations, Martin Rapaport has proposed a certification scheme: Below is an outline quoted from an article posted on RapNet.