“Thousands had been killed, raped, injured and enslaved in Zimbabwe, and the Kimberley Process had no way to call those conflict diamonds because there were no rebels,” says Smillie. Even in ...

Cheaper than mined diamonds and with no conflict associations, artificially created stones are becoming more popular. Just ask Leo DiCaprio When engineer Cristina Montiel and her fiance, Ruben Yrady, ...

Currently, conflict diamonds are fuelling civil war in the Ivory ... which has sharply cut the trade in illicit stones. No. At the Kimberley Process review in Botswana last month, Ghana was ...

The mechanism, part of the EU's sanctions package against Russia, is now due to come into effect on January 1, 2026.

Since the Kimberley Process applies to all jewelers equally, no one should have a competitive advantage. Tiffany’s major costs, Kowalski said, stem from its efforts to acquire diamonds from Canada, ...

Some couples were looking for sustainable and ethical alternatives to traditional diamonds, to avoid inadvertently purchasing “conflict diamonds”—those mined in war zones to fund violent ...

In December, Yrady proposed to Montiel in Italy with a radiant-cut diamond almost as big as a gummy bear. “Everyone and all of my girlfriends that see it are in love with it,” said Montiel ...