Trade in “blood diamonds”: Belgium’s responsibility highlighted again

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Belgium currently represents a major international hub, with 84% of the total world production of rough diamonds and 50% of all polished diamonds passing through Antwerp.

Justice and Peace once again highlighted Belgium's responsibility in the trade in “blood diamonds” on Thursday. As a new meeting of the Kimberley Process approaches, an international certification mechanism aimed at curbing this trade, the Belgian NGO is publishing a new report denouncing all the limits of this mechanism supposed to put an end to “conflict diamonds”. b9719933781z.1_20190613203152_000_g35drfqrf.1-0.jpg Read on the website the Free

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