Sentences with phrase «kimberley process»

Dubai's Global Blockchain Council (GBC) is running a pilot project called Operation Kimberley, which aims to use blockchain technology to digitalize the issuance and transfer of Kimberley Process certificates used in the shipment of...

Now, the Kimberley Process (KP), an international organization that oversees the diamond trade, is hoping that the technology behind bitcoin, the blockchain, can plug the leaks.

While technology can help play a role in identifying participants on these types of networks (blockchains and distributed ledgers), it is also worth exploring the proposed strawman for setting up a Kimberley Process for cryptocurrencies.

The Kimberley Process, launched in January 2003, is an international agreement working to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds.

The review mission, to be hosted by CAR's Ministry of Mines, is comprised of government officials from several Kimberley Process countries, a diamond industry representative and Global Witness representing civil society.

The mission will meet with relevant government authorities responsible for implementing the Kimberley Process as well as conduct on - site visits of diamond production and trading sites.

In the wake of these events, the CAR was initially removed from the Kimberley Process for several weeks.

Global Witness, a member of the review mission, welcomes this action as an important step to ensure that the Central African Republic is meeting the requirements of the Kimberley Process.

«The Kimberley Process will not be credible unless monitoring is carried out in all other participating countries.»

Global Witness called today for the Chair of the Kimberley Process (KP), the European Commission, to expel Venezuela from the government - led rough diamond certification scheme1 for flagrant non-compliance.

«To be credible, the Kimberley Process must require governments to adequately enforce their KP controls, including through regular spot checks to verify industry compliance.

Kimberley Process website: www.kimberleyprocess.com

This underlines the urgent need for regular and impartial monitoring of in the Kimberley Process to assess whether diamond control systems work effectively in practise.

Global Witness is calling on G8 governments to take the following actions: - Play a leadership role in the design and implementation of a regular and credible monitoring mechanism in the Kimberley Process, - Play a leadership role in strengthening international anti-terrorist financing efforts to prevent diamonds from financing terrorism.

The G8 Africa Action Plan released at the 2002 G8 Summit endorsed the Kimberley Process and recognised the link between natural resource exploitation and armed conflict.

At this meeting, G8 governments must take action to ensure that diamonds do not finance conflict and terrorism and show their strong commitment to promoting the effective implementation and monitoring of the Kimberley Process, an international diamond certification scheme to stop diamonds from fuelling conflicts.

” (ii) The Kimberley Process has the participation of about 70 governments, including all G8 governments.

Troubled Past Doubts of the Kimberley Process are by no means new.

The New York Times quotes Global Witness senior campaigner Annie Dunnebacke: «It's the most egregious situation that we've seen since the Kimberley Process was launched, where diamonds have been fueling violence and human rights violations, and the Kimberley has really failed to deal with that effectively.»

BBC quotes Global Witness founding director Charmian Gooch: «Nearly nine years after the Kimberley Process was launched, the sad truth is that most consumers still can not be sure where their diamonds come from.»

Global Witness — an organization that helped to establish the Kimberley Process — has officially withdrawn from KP because of the scheme's «shocking» decision in November.

The Kimberley Process was established to prevent diamond sales from funding conflict — «blood diamonds» — but in reality, not a whole lot has changed.

Maguwu, who focuses on the Chiadzwa diamond fields, says that whenever a Kimberley Process official visits the diamond fields, there is an upsurge in violence, with soldiers victimizing ordinary civilians.

It's problematic for the Kimberley Process because the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe's diamond mines are, like the country's other political problems, quite blatant.

Martin Rapaport, chairman of Rapaport Group, which runs a diamond - pricing service, said last month, «Even a child can see the [Kimberley Process]'s emperor has no clothes.

The odds are against it, as innovations such as the Kimberley Process have reduced the percentage of conflict diamonds to less than 5 % of all diamonds mined.

As soon as a diamond has been cut and polished, it's out of Kimberley Process» hands.

He reveals how closely connected the diamond industry is to so much of the conflict in modern day Africa, and how the much vaunted Kimberley process (that is meant to ensure that «blood diamonds» don't reach the Western market) is fundamentally flawed.

All our diamond suppliers confirm that they comply with the Kimberley Process to ensure that their diamonds are conflict free.

Sterling Silver and 14k Yellow Gold Created Ruby Heart and Diamond - Accent Pendant Necklace, -LRB-.006 cttw, I - J Color, I2 - I3 Clarity), 18 ″ $ 84.00 Heart - shape created ruby pendant necklace with decorative sterling silver and 14k yellow gold bail accented by petite diamond Spring - ring clasp All our diamond suppliers confirm that they comply with the Kimberley Process to ensure that their diamonds are conflict free.

Sterling Silver, 14k Rose Gold, and Diamond Triple Heart Pendant Necklace -LRB-.09 cttw, I - J Color, I2 - I3 Clarity), 18 ″ $ 95.00 Pendant necklace with intertwined rose gold, diamond - accented, and sterling silver hearts Box chain with spring - ring clasp All our diamond suppliers confirm that they comply with the Kimberley Process to ensure that their diamonds are conflict free Imported

In 2003 the Kimberley Process was adopted by the United Nations to address the issue of conflict diamonds.

Kimberley Process fraud was uncovered in Brazil and Guyana in 2006.

Rio Tinto is a leading supporter of the Kimberley Process as well as a founding member of Responsible Jewellery Council.

«Our main objective today is to go there and see how prepared out artisanal diamond miners and those trading in diamonds comply with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme,» he told Joy News Monday.

The Kimberley Process is a global body backed by the United Nations that's supposed to keep blood diamonds from entering into the consumer stream.

In a further decline of the credibility of the diamond industry's way of ensuring «conflict free» diamonds, the non-governmental organization IMPACT, based in Canada, announced its departure from the Kimberley Process certification scheme the diamond industry has much touted to eradicate the trade in conflict diamonds.

The move is not surprising and confirms what we already know: the Kimberley Process is meaningless when used by retailers who claim their diamonds are «conflict free».

The Kimberley Process was supposed to do the same for diamonds from all countries by banning the trade of conflict stones.

Confidence in the Kimberley Process took another blow with allegations that it's being used to certify conflict diamonds from Brazil.

Not exact matches

IT»S not easy to see the positive aspect to the mothballing of the onshore gas - processing hub proposed for the Browse LNG project on the Kimberley coast.

By: Kimberley Smuts 6th May 2016 The use of multiparametric block models, which contain more than just geological data, to analyse the risks associated with the mining process, allow more informed business decisions to be made on the basis of risk and exposure to that risk.

The sale process is being conducted by Ernst & Young through Don Manifold and has come close to being finalised with an agreement in April this year that would have seen Chinese - based Dakang Australia Holdings, backed by Shanghai Pengxin, buy the cattle station operation that spans from the Kimberley in Western Australia to Queensland's Channel country.

Until the process is cleaned up, it's hard to trust that Kimberley - certified diamonds are any different than the blood diamonds that people got so worked up over years ago.

(the 3) tiers will establish a structure of representation that can respond to the diversity and geographical vastness of the Kimberley, but, at the same time, provide a process for the integration of the varied needs and interests of its communities into a single Kimberley plan... it should be noted that it could easily be adapted with a further tier to establish a State - wide model of Aboriginal representation and governance.

In the 2005 - 2006 year, the Kimberley Land Council (KLC) gave an example of the practical process through which their funding was determined: 11