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25.10.16

What is Blockchain – and how does it apply to diamonds?

The technology might help track stolen goods and improve the Kimberley Process.

Jewelry and watch Responsibility and innovation

24.10.16

Diamond Empowerment Fund elects Marcus ter Haar, Deputy MD of Okavango Diamond Company, to board of directors

Press Release – New York – The Diamond Empowerment Fund (D.E.F.) welcomes Marcus ter Haar, Deputy Managing Director of the Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) based in Botswana, to its global board of directors effective October 1.

Jewelry and watch Responsibility and innovation

20.10.16

KP proposes UN-mandated permanent secretariat

The Kimberley Process (KP) chair called for the establishment of a permanent secretariat to oversee the rehabilitation of nations that have been banned from exporting diamonds.

Responsibility and innovation

19.10.16

KP chair invites Civil Society Coalition to attend plenary meeting

The UAE Kimberley Process Chair (KP Chair), Ahmed Bin Sulayem, has extended an invitation to all members of the Civil Society Coalition (CSC) to attend the upcoming Plenary in Dubai, UAE.

Responsibility and innovation

06.10.16

DEF Awards $130,000 for Botswana Top Achievers program

The Diamond Empowerment Fund (D.E.F.) has presented a check for $130,000 to the Botswana Top Achievers program.

Responsibility and innovation

04.10.16

Dorothée Gizenga: ‘Blood diamonds’ are no longer the real problem

Dorothée Gizenga, head of the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), the organization dealing with the traditional diamond mining, in her interview to Rough&Polished

Responsibility and innovation

04.10.16

Antwerp explains position on undisclosed synthetics at info session

The Federation of Belgian Diamond Bourses, together with the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), has held a well-attended, two-hour information session on synthetic stones for members of the city’s four bourses.

Responsibility and innovation

29.09.16

Kimberley Process declares three more areas in CAR as ‘Compliant Zones’

Kimberley Process (KP) Chair Ahmed Bin Sulayem said that the KP Central African Republic (CAR) Monitoring team has declared three more sub-prefectures, Boda, Carnot and Nola, as ‘Compliant Zones’.

Responsibility and innovation

26.09.16

Interview with Responsible Jewellery Council Executive Director Andrew Bone

Is the time finally right for a diamond chain of custody? Andrew Bone, the executive director of Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), took some time to speak with me following his presentation at the World Diamond Council’s annual meeting earlier this month.

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