Rapaport Press Release: 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, Israel. Rapaport is fasting to protest

As reported in the Professional Jeweller by Kat Slowe Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF political and military elite are seeking to capture the country’s diamond wealth through a combination of state-sponsored violence and legally questionable opaque joint-venture companies, claimed new Global Witness report ‘Return of the blood diamonds’. The report criticised the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, set