Sentences with phrase «of blood diamonds»

«If the KP does not address large - scale smuggling of rough diamonds in Venezuela and other countries, it can not effectively protect against the threat of blood diamonds.»

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

Because locating an NES Classic Edition is like braving the Congo River in search of blood diamonds, the console has been springing up on eBay tagged with ridiculous prices, some hovering near the thousands mark, which is an insane markup for a plaything that originally retails for $ 59.99.

The idea was to help prevent the sale of blood diamonds in the country.

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.

Therefore, finding stashes of blood diamonds is relatively easy, as there is only a small area to hunt for them in.

Then you learn about the existence of blood diamonds.

Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada began spreading the story of the blood diamond.

Return of the blood diamond: how the crisis in Zimbabwe is undermining international efforts to eradicate conflict diamonds

Not exact matches

News of Lucara's discovery of the Lesedi La Rona diamond (it was named in a national contest held in Botswana and translates into «our light» in the Tswana language) has helped invigorate a mining category that has languished in the wake of a global recession, not to mention a campaign by Blood Diamond star Leonardo DiCaprio to promote synthetic alternatives to alleviate working conditions of miners in Africa.

And as global awareness about the horrific practices surrounding the mining of so - called «blood diamonds» in Africa intensified, Aber's Canadian provenance didn't hurt its prospects.

It's trade finance that provides the economic rationale to do a lot of these things: it happens to be aligned with the health benefits and the social impact of keeping blood diamonds out of the supply chain, but if the money wasn't there, I don't think there'd be an ability to do it,» he says.

The «Blood Diamond» movie star has touted the company for «cultivating real diamonds in America without the human and environmental toll of mining.»

lisa and i were all smiles tonight because the 5 of us went out for dinner and a movie («blood diamond», a must - see).

A decade ago, the Leonardo DiCaprio flick Blood Diamond did more to bring awareness to conflict diamonds than a decade of firsthand reporting, because the general public had a shared experience at the theater.

A parallel to Africa's «blood diamonds,» where mines in a war zone are looted to finance military operations, ancient artifacts are helping to fund ISIS's reign of terror.

Many pairs of Green's earrings are set with sparkling cubic zirconia, avoiding all potential «blood diamond» conflict issues, and accompanied with entirely biodegradable and plantable packaging.

Many people instantly associate the «resource curse» with images of African blood diamonds and mining - induced population displacement in Latin America.

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.

Most importantly, the doxorubicin - decorated diamonds had no effect on white blood cell count, an indicator of immune system activation that's often the deciding factor in whether a patient can continue chemotherapy.

Embedded in an artificial diamond will be four hollow gold pellets, the size of BBs, containing samples of air, seawater, soil — the life - giving elements — and human blood.

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.

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In particular, NWT diamonds are touted as an ethical alternative that allays risks of supporting conflicts by purchasing blood diamonds.

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Panorama: Mugabe's Blood Diamonds was broadcast on BBC One on Monday, 8 August at 20:30 BST and is now available in... But here's the rub: in two years of quintuple dating, Charlotte

Eragon may not be a big Oscar contender, but in a movie season filled with blood diamonds, fascist soldiers and Idi Amin, it provides a much - needed afternoon of PG - rated family - friendly adventure.

Among the wide and varied selection — William Wellman (Nothing Sacred, Lady of Burlesque), Roger Corman (A Bucket of Blood), Ida Lupino (The Hitch - Hiker), Allan Dwan (The Gorilla), Henry King (The Snows of Kilimanjaro), Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer)-- lies a true diamond in the rough: a handful of work by the great and underrated Roy William Neill.

Whitaker will win the Oscar, although there are strong contenders, including Will Smith in an affecting role as a homeless dad determined to raise his son in «The Pursuit of Happyness»; Ryan Gosling as a crack - smoking but well - meaning junior high school teacher in «Half Nelson,» and Leonardo DiCaprio as a mercenary Rhodesian diamond smuggler in «Blood Diamond.»

«Blood Diamond» is 110 minutes of intense, heart - wrenching, political and emotional turmoil about the blood shed by all concerned in the diamond - rich Sierra Leone region of western AfBlood Diamond» is 110 minutes of intense, heart - wrenching, political and emotional turmoil about the blood shed by all concerned in the diamond - rich Sierra Leone region of western Afblood shed by all concerned in the diamond - rich Sierra Leone region of western Africa.

Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string.

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

You will learn about «blood diamonds,» the Angolan civil war, a previous heist, biology of oxygen starvation (hyperlinked), air traffic control, how to operate the autopilot and use instrument landing system technology, view the avionics area (video), go to the boneyards in the Mojave desert (storage place for decommissioned aircraft), see a 777 being built and an Australian sand storm.

A riveting story reveals the cost of diamonds — not in dollars, but in terms of torture, blood, and death in Sierra Leone.

There were a few that didn't resonate with me (as is the way with anthologies) but some of my favorites included «The Man in the Mask» by Emma Faraday, «Great Canadian Comics» by Patrick T. Goddard, and «Canadian Blood Diamonds» by Kristi Charish.

Forna explored this period brilliantly in her thoughtful memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water; and she revisits the time and place in her new novel The Memory of Love, a striking study of the past and present of a country whose name calls up twisted images of beautiful beaches, blood diamonds and child soldiers.

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.

If you want to avoid blood diamonds, ask for the System of Warranties.

As a result, it's estimated that blood diamonds just make up about 1 % of the world's diamond production now.

In a 2010 post to this blog, I identified puppy mill dogs as the blood diamonds of animal welfare — beautiful things that consumers purchase with no understanding of the pain, suffering and death involved in bringing them to market.

I had no idea that art game developer Jason Rohrer (Passage, Sleep Is Death) has been maintaining a blog dedicated to his intriguing DS project Diamond Trust of London, but here it is — he's actually been regularly posting stuff on the multiplayer strategy title about blood diamond trading in Angola.

(Later, an Iraqi gallery owner laid out her own spectrum of dubious wealth: arms, drugs, and blood diamonds were very bad; pharmaceuticals were on the fence; tax evasion and corruption through contracting and procurement were unremarkable; robber barons and industry titans were business as it's always been.)

The Democratic Republic of Congo also happens to be the focus of a lawsuit taking place in Texas, where Glacial Energy is being sued for secretly mining blood diamonds in the Congo.

If it had ANY merit at all Engineers would build them — at the very least they would reduce emissions and the extra «free heat» and pressure could be utilised to catalyse CO2 into diamonds thus ending one of the scourges of mankind — the blood diamond trade.

The trade in blood diamonds has led to devastating wars in Sierra Leone, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia and over 4 million people have died as a result of these wars.

Subsequently, Charmian developed and launched Global Witness's ground - breaking campaign to combat «blood diamonds»; Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize as a result of this work.

«Blood Diamonds» awoke the world to the horror of warlords and their atrocities; so, «Ethical Oil» will wake the world up to the despotic regimes in Conflict Oil Countries.

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.»

The Blood Diamonds star announced filmmaking plans in 2005 and true to his word, is promoting his soon - to - be-released feature - length documentary on the state of the global environment.