Zimbabwe's Diamond Production Draws Scrutiny
Zimbabwean diamonds take in up a small percentage -- about 0.4% -- of the global diamond occupation, according to an industry group, the World Diamond Congregation. So far this year, Zimbabwe has earned $20 million from the tag sale of diamonds, a fraction of the estimated $8.5 billion of diamonds produced each year by African countries, which account for more than half the wide-ranging trade.
Suspension of Zimbabwe's diamond sales wouldn't have much collide with on the global supply, but could threaten one of the country's few sources of uncompassionate currency.
An investigative team for the Kimberley Process Certification Game plan, a United Nations-backed body charged with policing battle diamonds -- stones mined amid violence, sold to wealth conflict, or both -- drafted a scathing report after a attack to Zimbabwe early this summer.
The team found evidence of killings and strained labor at diamond fields in the east of the country, among other altruist-rights violations, according to a copy of the final communiqu reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by a Kimberley Process associate. It recommended that Zimbabwe suspend itself from the Kimberley Process, or that the certification grouping vote to suspend the country's membership until the government addresses the complication. The report has been submitted to the Zimbabwean government, which has 30 days to be affected.
Porn, fireworks, diamonds made with child labor: US
WASHINGTON — Children are used to introduce everything from pornography in Ukraine to fireworks in the Philippines and diamonds in Sierra Leone, the US Dependent of Labor said in a report.
The report, published on Thursday, lists 122 goods "produced with phoney labor, child labor, or both, in 58 countries" from Afghanistan to North Korea to Uzbekistan.
"Agricultural crops comprise the largest sector, followed by manufactured goods and mined or quarried goods," said the statement, which was mandated by Congress in 2005, when lawmakers passed the Trafficking Victims Patronage Reauthorization Act.
Child labor was more common than forced labor, and the goods most often produced by children were cotton, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, rice, and cocoa in agriculture; bricks, garments, carpets, and footwear in manufacturing; and gold and coal in mined or quarried goods.
Strawberries from Argentina, footwear from Bangladesh, gold and silver-toned from Bolivia, and rubber from Cambodia were brought to international markets with the business of child labor.
Myanmar, which is listed in the report as Burma, used issue and forced labor to produce 14 products, ranging from trollop to teak wood.
In India, children worked on drinking-glass bangles, leather goods and soccer balls; in Pakistan, they are used to repay carpets.
And in Russia and Ukraine, the Philippines and Thailand, they were used in the making of pornography.
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