FJA supports all industry efforts to clean up the supply chain and to tackle the systemic human rights and environmental abuses where-ever they occur. Martin Rapaport has been one of a number of leading figures in the diamond world calling for greater transparency and traceability and as such we commend his and the Rapaport teams

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

TanzaniteOne http://www.tanzaniteone.com/ has announced that they are now producing ethical “mine to market” gems http://www.tanzaniteonegrafgemjointventure.ch/content-n23-sE.html. What exactly do they mean? TanzaniteOne from an ethical perspective has had a reputation. At the JCK Jewelry Show just a few days ago, I spoke with a journalist who had written a piece for GIA several years ago, which