Activist organisations today expressed a vote of no confidence in the Kimberley Process, and walked out of the scheme’s meeting in Kinshasa, in protest at its failure to address human rights abuses associated with the diamond trade...[C]ivil society organisations from West Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Europe and North America are deeply concerned that the scheme is not meeting its most basic commitments...Over the past two years, the Kimberley Process has faced one of its biggest challenges in trying to address state-sponsored violence and human rights abuses in Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields...[T]here is a significant, and widening, gap between how the Kimberley Process presents itself, and what it is actually achieving. Until this is addressed, it is difficult to see how civil society organisations can justify active participation in the scheme.