Making it Work: Why the Kimberley Process Must Do More to Stop Conflict Diamonds
      Global Witness , November 2005

     In November 2005, Global Witness published a report called Making it Work, which gives detailed information about the current situation on conflict diamonds.

What are conflict diamonds?

Conflict diamonds are diamonds that fuel conflict, civil wars and human rights abuses. They have been responsible for funding recent conflicts in Africa, resulting in the death and displacement of millions of people. During these conflicts, profits from the illegal trade in diamonds, worth billions of dollars, were used by warlords and rebels to buy arms. An estimated 3.7 million people have died in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in conflicts fuelled by diamonds.

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