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Article

10 Dec 2006

Author:
Ilana DeBare, San Francisco Chronicle

Canadian gems leave buyers conflicted - Does buying them help or hurt Africa?

Is selling Canadian diamonds a solution to the human-rights problems that have surrounded parts of the African diamond industry? Or is it a feel-good measure that ultimately hurts African miners and citizens?.."Brilliant Earth offers diamonds that are individually tracked to their origin in Canada, which has very strict labor and environmental standards," said [co-founder Beth] Gerstein... But Brilliant Earth's business model is catching flak from...activists who monitor the rights of African diamond miners... [H]uman-rights activists say more must be done to improve working conditions of African miners -- but avoiding African diamonds isn't the way to do that.