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The decision on June 23, 2011, to allow exports from Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields goes against the very spirit and purpose of the Kimberley Process, Human Rights Watch said today. Governments and companies should repudiate the decision and refuse Zimbabwean diamonds until participants in the Kimberley Process (KP) can make a clear decision about the export of these diamonds.
Mathieu Yamba, chairman of the Kimberly Process, made the decision unilaterally. It allows the exports without any monitoring for human rights abuses or evidence that Zimbabwe is complying with the KP standards. (...)

The article:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/06/28/zimbabwe-kimberley-process-brink

More about:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Principles/KimberleyProcess

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Le donne coraggio dello Zimbabwe:

http://lepersoneeladignita.corriere.it/2011/10/02/le-donne-coraggio-dello-zimbabwe/

Amnesty International - L'appello:

http://www.amnesty.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/5208/P/5085?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Ottobre2011

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Basic information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_Process_Certification_Scheme

Human rights in Zimbabwe:
http://www.hrw.org/en/world-report-2011/zimbabwe
http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/zimbabwe/report-2011
http://50.amnesty.it/sites/default/files/Zimbabwe_0.pdf

Past...present:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1378:zimbabwes-blood-diamonds&catid=46:diritti-umani&Itemid=105
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1463:lkimberleyr-in-crisi-sul-caso-zimbabwe&catid=46:diritti-umani&Itemid=105