Sentences with phrase «blood diamonds from»

Then there are the conflict driven resource curses, like blood diamonds from West Africa or Congo's coltan, a metallic ore that supplies materials for consumer electronics.

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.

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Diamond Wish manufactures and processes its diamonds in the USA — they also guarantee that none of their diamonds are blood diamonds, or sourced from regions enduring conflict.

What is so unbelievably unique about these lines is that a substantial portion of the proceeds from sales, 100 % profit from Dreams of Africa and 25 % from AWEAR items, goes to support children in nations hit hard by the blood diamond trade.

Ranging from blood diamonds, pirates in Somalia and the emergence of mexican cartels.

I saw evidence of elementary school projects that ranged from building soap box cars to an investigation into «bling» — what it is, why we have it, and its implications including the impacts of blood diamonds.

Thanks in part to the recent Leonardo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond, it's now common knowledge that diamonds from places such as Angola and Sierra Leone can be used to fund bloody conflicts.

There's Blood Badges from PvP, Blood Diamonds you can buy and you get from logging in, and Blood Gems and Blood Pearls you get from PvE quests.

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

Congo, for example, from which reports continue to flow of blood diamonds making their way into the international market.

It is home to awful gang violence that led the Wall Street Journal in 2014 to suggest that avocados from the region are tainted, «blood avocados — the Mexican equivalent of the conflict diamonds that are sold from war - torn parts of Africa.»

Once enough attention was brought upon the practice of buying and selling blood diamonds, gems sourced from a war zone under terrible conditions, diamond companies went into motion to show that their gems come from conflict - free areas.