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Blood Diamonds
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Because buying diamond earrings is a very personal choice and involves a major financial investment, confidence is paramount in choosing where to purchase from.
You need to be reassured that not only are you purchasing from a reputable source, but also that the whole supply source meets social, environmental and political responsibilities.
You may have heard about conflict diamonds or blood diamonds where the diamonds have been bought from rebel movements, terrorists or otherwise stolen from legitimate sites and used to fund guerrilla movements or terrorist activity. The “Kimberley Process” was set up as an international certification scheme to regulate the trade in rough diamonds (diamonds that have yet to be cut and polished).
Therefore the retailer that you are buying your diamond earrings from must be able to answer that their diamonds have passed the Kimberley process.
The last thing you would want is for you to be inadvertently funding these appalling activities in the world. That is the reason why they are termed “blood diamonds” as literally people have been murdered as a result of the theft of these diamonds.
They are mainly smuggled out as rough diamonds, which are diamonds that have not yet been cut and polished. They are usually stolen from Central and West African countries (e.g. Sierra Leone) where the diamonds are easier to mine and thus much easier to smuggle.
Therefore by avoiding these diamonds you are helping to stop the financing of armed conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments.