It is an industry that was supposed to be cleaned up, after the turn-of-the-millennium­ notoriety surrounding so-called blood or conflict ­diamonds—precious stones mined in African war zones ...

Despite industry claims, there are few controls to prevent diamond sales from financing violence and abuse around the world.

Anyone who’s seen Blood Diamond or is simply aware of the controversy surrounding the mining industry’s questionable track ...

Source: Liubov Abravitova, the Ambassador of Ukraine to South Africa and Mozambique and ... needs explaining why Russian diamonds are really blood diamonds and how this threatens not only the ...