Conflict Minerals: WDC Issues Definition of Conflict Diamonds

Nov 14, 2018 | Rapaport News
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The World Diamond Council (WDC) has released its proposed new Kimberley Process (KP) definition of conflict diamonds, which addresses a broader range of human-rights abuses. The definition describes them as “rough diamonds used by public security forces or private (including criminal or mercenary) armed groups to acquire wealth through illegal control, bribery, taxation, extortion or dispossession of people,” the WDC said Tuesday. It would also include stones “acquired through systemic and widespread violence, forced labor, the worst forms of child labor, or through violations of international humanitarian law.”