Greetings! Diamonds for Peace (DFP) publishes the newsletter “The Journey” to share the latest information, progress, plan and challenges with its supporters. I’m pleased to announce that we have published vol.2 last month. The digital version of The Journey is now available online. You can download it from: http://diamondsforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Journey2.pdf We’d…
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The board members and volunteers of Diamonds for Peace worked on a survey on the awareness of Japanese consumers and diamond retail companies on the issues of diamonds. The English version of the report is released. The purpose of the survey is to discover the level of understanding of the…
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Greetings! Diamonds for Peace (DFP) will publish the newsletter “The Journey” biannually to share the latest information, progress, plan and challenges with its supporters. I’m pleased to announce that we have just published vol.1. The title “The Journey” has two meanings for us. The first is the journey of our…
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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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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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Observation of Cooperatives of Artisanal Diamond Miners in Cote d’Ivoire In January 2015, Chie Murakami, director general of NPO Diamonds for Peace was invited and participated in both a tour of artisanal diamond mining communities and the PRADDII workshop (Property Rights and Artisanal Diamond Development Project). Since the lifting of…
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May 2014 *Featured Image: An artisanal diamond digger in Liberia. He dives into the bottom of a river and grabs as much soil as possible with a hose wrapped around his body to breathe, hoping he can get a piece of diamond, which rarely happens. He continues to do so…
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