They say a diamond is forever. From today, and for now, that also includes blood diamonds. On Monday the respected rights and commerce watchdog Global Witness announced it was quitting the ...

Few Americans would have imagined that they have something in common with the people of Sierra Leone, who for years have suffered torture, rape, mutilation and murder at the hands of an uncommonly ...

Through a web of corruption and deceit, Israel is deeply entangled in the lucrative blood diamond trade in the DRC. Here’s ...

For centuries, diamonds have held a special place in human culture. Rulers adorned themselves with them, lovers exchanged them as symbols of commitment, and collectors placed them at high prices for ...

As a means to drive home its chief argument – that the 14-carat rock on your fiancée’s ring finger might be little more than a blood-drenched byproduct of an African civil war – the stringent ...

What a fuss a number can make -- one little number. And here it is: Fewer than 1 percent of diamonds on the market today are "conflict diamonds." The number seems surprising, considering all the ...

British supermodel Naomi Campbell has been called to testify in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Ghankay Taylor at The Hague in the Netherlands — will she talk about her blood diamond?

Djimon Hounsou has signed up to African thriller The Blood Diamond, reports Variety. The story, created by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell, follows a smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio) who deals in ...