Death and Diamonds

Nirali Magazine has a primer from Nadia Samadani on how to ensure you don’t support the conflict diamond trade.

Excerpt:

If Nadia Samadani gets her way, women won’t be entrusting DeBeers—or the diamond industry—with any hand. Samadani, who has researched, written and presented on conflict diamonds for several years, is passionate about her subject. She recalls putting together a presentation on children from Sierra Leone who were used by revolutionaries to mine diamonds—children whose hands had been amputated—and crying while she compiled the photos. “I couldn’t believe the irony—one person loses a hand for a shiny stone that eventually ends up safely tucked onto another, more fortunate hand.”

Read Samadani’s recommendations for buying guilt-free stones.

*Includes a link to Amnesty International’s list of jewelers who voluntarily participate in the Kimberley Process.