Article link: Why We Still Need a Kimberley Process

[Karl_K]

I found this very interesting and informative.
http://www.jckonline.com/blogs/cutting-remarks/2010/08/27/why-we-still-need-kimberley-process

The blog link is posted with permission from Ella.

 

[Regular Guy]

Thank you Karl. I agree, very informative.

I don't pretend to have the necessary larger perspective, but the representative from Partership Africa Canaca, Nadim Kara, spoke words it is simply easy to feel an affirmative responsiveness to....

to wit...

"Zim has also illuminated the dark side of the technocratic, risk-averse culture of the KP. By denying that the KP has any role in promoting respect for human rights, KP members have demonstrated a deplorable lack of creativity, of vision, and of leadership. Even if this is technically true, why is not every government in the KP participating in a massive lobbying campaign with other KP members to change the formal definition of conflict diamonds and ensure that no diamond associated with human rights abuses gets a KP stamp of approval? The lack of effort by governments and industry on this front is the most disappointing."


Ira Z.