Few topics in the world of precious stones carry the weight — both moral and historical — of blood diamonds. These glittering gems, identical in appearance to their ethically sourced counterparts, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the ambitious, sweeping and sometimes moving Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick aims to fuse recent history with mass-scale entertainment. That's nothing new for Hollywood, and the story of the wages of ...

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 ...

In 2019, the Safdie Brothers released an instant classic that starts far from the chaotic New York where the movie spends most of its time. It begins in Ethiopia, where miners find a mesmerizing and ...