TEN YEARS ON, THE KIMBERLEY PROCESS CERTIFICATION SCHEME AND ZIMBABWE'S MARANGE AND 'CONFLICT DIAMONDS': LESSONS TO BE LEARNT.

The article focuses on the primary objectives of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), created by a United Nations resolution to prevent the entry of conflict diamond into the mainstream rough diamond market and to prevent human rights violations in illegal diamond trade. It focuses on the human rights violations in the Marange diamond mines in Zimbabwe, and the applicability of the KPCS in this case.