Links to key documents

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  • UN General Assembly:
    General Assembly urges Finalization of International Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds
    (March 13 2002)

    Resolution on the Role of Diamonds in Fuelling Conflict
    (Jan 29 2001)
  • Global Witness:
    Conflict Diamonds: Possibilities for the Identification, Certification and Control
    (10 May 2000)

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  • UN Security Council Committee:
    report of the Monitoring Mechanism on Sanctions against UNITA
    update the Mechanism's findings since its supplementary report of 12 October 2001 (S/2001/966) (9 April. 2002)
  • Global Witness:
    All the Presidents Men: The devastating story of oil and banking in Angola's privatised war.
    (March 2002)
  • UN Security Council Committee:
    Report of the Monitoring Mechanism on Sanctions against UNITA
    (12 Oct. 2001)
  • Oxfam International:
    Angola's Wealth: Stories of War and Neglect
    (Sep 2001)
  • UN Security Council Committee:
    Addendum to Final Report of the Monitoring Mechanism on Angolan Sanctions
    (18 April 2001)
    Final Report of the Monitoring Mechanism on Angolan Sanctions
    (21 Dec 2000)
  • Human Rights Watch:
    Angola: Human Rights Developments World Report 2001
  • Human Rights Watch:
    The IMFs Staff Monitoring Program for Angola: The Human Rights Implications
    (23 June 2000)
  • Fowler Report:
    UN report on violations of Security Council sanctions against UNITA
    (10 March 2000)
  • ACTSA:
    Waiting on Empty Promises: The Human Cost of International Inaction on Angolan Sanctions
    (March 2000)
  • Global Witness:
    A Crude Awakening: The Role of the Oil and Banking Industries in Angolas Civil War
    (Dec 1999)
  • Human Rights Watch:
    Angola unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process
    (Sept 1999)
  • Global Witness:
    A Rough Trade: The role of companies' and governments in the Angolan conflict
    (Dec 1998)
  • UN Security Council - Angola:
    Resolutions, annual reports, press releases, documents

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  • UN Security Council:
    Interim Report of expert panel on the illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wealth
    (22 May 2002)
  • Global Witness:
    Branching Out: Zimbabwe's Resource Colonialism in DRC
    2nd Edition (21 Feb 2002)
  • Oxfam Briefing Paper on the DRC:
    Poverty in the Midst of Wealth
    (22 Jan 2002)
  • International Peace Information Service:
    Supporting the War Economy in the DRC: European Companies and the Coltan Trade: Five Case studies
    (14 Jan 2002)
  • UN Security Council:
    Addendum to the report of expert panel on the illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wealth
    (13 Nov 2001)
  • Bjørn Willum:
    Foreign aid to Rwanda: purely beneficial or contributing to war? candidate dissertation
    (22 Oct 2001)
  • UN Security Council:
    Report of expert panel on the illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wealth
    (12 April 2001)
  • International Crisis Group:
    From Kabila to Kabila: prospects for peace in the Congo
    (16 March 2001)
  • UN Security Council:
    Interim report of expert panel on the illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wealth
    (16 Jan 2001)
  • International Crisis Group:
    Scramble for the Congo: anatomy of an ugly war
    (20 Dec 2000)
  • UN Security Council:
    Lusaka Peace Agreement - Part One, Part Two
    (10 July 1999)
  • UN Security Council:
    Documents, reports, resolutions on MONUC

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  • International Crisis Group:
    Liberia: The Key to Ending Regional Instability
    (24 April 2002)
  • UN Security Council:
    Report of Panel of Experts on Liberia in accordance with paragraph 4 of resolution 1395 (2002)
    (19 April 2002)
  • Physicians for Human Rights USA:
    War-Related Sexual Violence in Sierra Leone: A Population-Based Assessment
    (23 Jan. 2002)
  • UN Security Council Committee:
    Sanctions Report of Panel of Experts
    (26 Oct. 2001)
  • Global Witness:
    Taylor-made: The Pivotal Role of Liberia's Forests in Regional Conflict
    (6 Sep. 2001)
    Review of the SL Diamond Certification System and Proposals & Recommendations for the Kimberley Process for a Fully Integrated Certification System, (FICS)
    (25 April 2001)
  • International Crisis Group:
    Sierra Leone: Time for a New Military and Political Strategy
    (11 April 2001)
  • UN Security Council:
    Resolution 1344 Imposing Sanctions Against Liberia
    (7 March 2001, taking effect 7 May)
  • UN Security Council:
    Sierra Leone: Report of the Panel of Experts to the UN Security Council
    (Dec 2000)
  • Conciliation Sources - Accord series:
    Paying the Price: The Sierra Leone Peace Process
    overview of the peace process in Sierra Leone: key documents, profiles, chronologies etc.
    (Sep 2000)
  • Partnership Africa Canada:
    The Heart of the Matter: Sierra Leone: Diamonds and Human Security
    (Jan 2000)
  • UN Security Council - Sierra Leone:
    Resolutions, annual reports, press releases, documents
  • UN Security Council - Liberia:
    Resolutions, annual reports, press releases

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