{"id":4467,"date":"2010-05-23T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2010-05-26T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:37:30","slug":"ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/05\/23\/ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics in the 21st Century Diamond Jewelry Industry (II\/III): The Kimberley process and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/21st-centurynetwork.com\/blog\/?p=2974\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4468\" title=\"100525_jewel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/100525_jewel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>This is the second of a three part articles series on ethical issues  related to the jewelery industry. <a href=\"http:\/\/21st-centurynetwork.com\/blog\/?p=2832\">Part 1<\/a> examined the global context and problems, ethical as well as ecological,  related to the mining of precious stones. This present part examines  the controversial Kimberley Process, and part 3 will present a more  close up of the problems encountered in specific areas as well as point  out what high street consumer can do to bring about change. The author has recently co-founded a diamond jewelry business in  Japan. One problem he is facing is what to do about the ethical issues  involved. By:  Michael Werneburg, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mwerneburg\">@mwerneburg<\/a>,  founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/caritas.co.jp\/\"> Caritas. <\/a>Following  a call from the United Nations for action, ten years ago, in May 2000,  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimberleyprocess.com\/\">Kimberley Process  Certification Scheme<\/a> (KPCS) was proposed, and the diamond industry  responded to the threat of sanctions and boycotts by forming the World  Diamond Council to find an industry-based solution. <a href=\"http:\/\/21st-centurynetwork.com\/blog\/?p=2974\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/21st-centurynetwork.com\/blog\/?p=2974\" target=\"_blank\">GlobalNet21<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second of a three part articles series on ethical issues related to the jewelery industry. Part 1 examined the global context and problems, ethical as well as ecological, related to the mining of precious stones. This present part examines the controversial Kimberley Process, and part 3 will present a more close up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}