Chie Murakami and Tomone Kawai, the Director General and the Deputy Director General for Diamonds for Peace, participated in the Panasonic NPO Support Fund for Africa Award Ceremony held at Panasonic center in Tokyo on 24th January 2018. In the morning, we participated in presentations of progress reports by NPOs…
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Written by Diamonds for Peace Liberia staff Liberia’s transition, what it means to every Liberian Liberia has not had a democratic transition of power from one elected president to the next in the last 74 years. But how Liberians feel about the transition is an important issue to talk about.…
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Many persons in Liberia’s western mining region find their living through artisanal diamond mining; some work as miners and many of them as diggers. Many rely solely on diamond mining for survival. Gondor Town is a diamond mining community in the western region of Grand Cape Mount County; one of…
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The Liberian culture speaks of the way Liberians should dress and act. Additionally, it teaches good morals and societal norms, varying from tribe to tribe. However, many Liberians in urban communities are gradually forgetting their cultural heritage and have substituted it with western cultural forms. This trend reaches even to…
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Written by DFP Liberia Staff Prostitution is the exchange of sex for money; it is very common in Liberia. The act takes place openly on street corners in Monrovia and many other cities in Liberia. Mostly involved are teenage and adolescent girls between the ages 20 and 30. During the…
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Eight members of NGO Diamonds for Peace (DFP) volunteers had worked on translating the book “Blood Diamond: Corruption and Torture in Angola” written by Rafael Marques de Morais, the Angolan journalist and human rights activist, into Japanese. DFP released Japanese version online. Angola is situated in Southern Africa. It is…
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Greetings from Yokohama, Japan. Diamonds for Peace had conducted the online campaign addressed to the Angolan president to cancel the sentence against the journalist, Rafael Marques de Morais, who revealed the cases of violence and murders in diamond producing areas in Angola masterminded by Angolan high ranking officials. Diamonds for…
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Written by DFP Liberia staff Is it common in your country, or does it even happen where you live? Well, my country, Liberia is in a state of recovery after experiencing 14 years of civil unrest; a conflict which greatly devastated the land and caused serious economic hardship for its…
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Diamonds for Peace (DFP) had conducted the field survey in the western region of Liberia from August 2016 to March 2017 to assess the local reality of the artisanal diamond mining for the purpose of project design and compiled the results as situation analysis. Followed by the publication of report…
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Written by DFP Liberia Staff One nation one people, but with 16 different tribes across 15 counties; each of these tribes has a way of life special to them. They live in and own different parts of the country. These tribes are different from each other in many ways; the…
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