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  • Blood Diamonds: End in Doubt - press release
    Diamants de guerre : Est-ce vraiment la fin? - Communiqué de presse
    March 18, 2002
  • Implementing Kimberley: Stopping the blood diamond trade to Europe (PDF)
    Programme EU expert meeting, Thursday March 7 - European Parliament, Brussels
  • EU must lead campaign against conflict diamonds (PDF)
    Fatal transactions press statement (March 4, 2002)
  • Valentine's Day 2002 press release,
    conflict diamonds - more bad news
  • Open Brief aan Hare Majesteit over conflictdiamanten,
    (Open letter to Her Majesty the Queen on conflict diamonds) in Dutch, 30 Jan 2002
  • on the UNGA Draft Resolution on Conflict Diamonds
    urgent letter to UN Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives, Jan 17, 2002
  • Internationaal verdrag ter bestrijding van conflictdiamanten is tandeloze waakhond
    De slotbijeenkomst van het Kimberley-proces, de internationale onderhandelingen over de strijd tegen conflictdiamanten, heeft enkele positieve ontwikkelingen laten zien, maar geen verdrag opgeleverd. De Verenigde Naties ontvangen in december
  • World-wide diamond certificate out of reach - governments should practice what they preach
    The establishment of a world-wide agreement against conflict diamonds is in serious need of some cardiac massage, concludes the Fatal Transaction campaign against conflict diamonds. Ministers of diamond producing and importing countries and the European Commission were supposed to ratify an agreement on certification of diamonds, on November 29 2001 in Gaborone
  • download a letter of concern to the World Diamond Council HTML MsWord of PDF
    download uw brief aan de Hoge Raad voor de Diamant HTML MsWord of PDF (in Dutch)
    Brief aan Nederlandse juweliers (in Dutch)
  • Al Qaeda Cash Tied to Diamond Trade
    Sale of Gems From Sierra Leone Rebels Raised Millions, Sources Say
    (Washington Post, November 2, 2001)
  • EU Control of Diamond Imports from African countries in conflict
    Report of the European Union expert meeting, Sep. 25, 2001 (PDF, 564 kB)
  • Hypocracy on countering terrorism
    why some governments are failing to take action on conflict diamonds
    Global Witness press release (Oct. 26, 2001)
  • Conflict diamonds: crossing European borders?
    A case study of Belgium, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands
    (Amsterdam, Aug. 2001)
    summary HTML
    full text HTML (185kB)  PDF (261 kB) 
    conclusions
    recommendations
  • ABN AMRO en de diamanthandel
    Onderzoeksrapport SOMO 23 mei 2001 (in Dutch)

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