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What lies beneath the glamour of the diamond industry

The price of a diamond.

If you ask an average person on the street about the price of a diamond, the guess would probably be a couple of thousand dollars. Some may call that expensive, some may call that cheap, and some may call it a lie. In some cases, those last would be right. The trade of conflict diamonds is not a couple of thousand dollars, it is so much more. It is the life of a child, of abuse, separation and torture.

Why is it that the media has the time to inform the public about the daily lives of celebrities, the new best sellers, the weather and the rotting economy of certain "ieklsiewsl",Tiffany Jewelry Sale, countries, but they forget to raise awareness of issues that are so crucial, yet so dark that they are left invisible to many? Conflict diamonds, although many are unaware, are a component of international trade. Despite their illegitimacy they still find their way into the world where demand for diamonds, the greed for aesthetic beauty, is greater than the ,cheap tiffany jewelry, interest of whether the diamond you are presenting to the world is clean, something that comes from an individual's humanity.

Look into the eyes of the child who works in mines. Look into his huge eyes, tortured by darkness and hard labor, and ask yourself, is this really the symbol of everlasting love, diamonds? Blood diamonds are not beautiful. They are not pure, clean or impeccable. They are dirty, covered by blood, and they represent hundreds of thousands of deaths, death of children as young as the age of five, separated from their families, with nothing to comfort themselves with, with no one to save them, working hours a day with no rights or education, for the benefit of hooligans, wars and weapons. If adults really are who they claim to be, the protectors of children, the ones who hold responsibility for their lives, then how do you explain your reckless ambition to fight, kill and torture? Those wars are not funded by governments only; they are also funded by the trade of conflict diamonds and the lives of the children who dig for them. But why are so many unaware of that?

Over 50 countries exploit the rights of young children by sending them into hazardous mines of minerals, and in the Sahel region ,Tiffany Jewellery Outlet, of Africa alone, this exploitation takes over 1/3 of the total industry workforce. Countries such as Sierra Leone and Nigel take part in this deathly sin and elicit trade, and although "The Kimberley Process" has attempted to decrease the number of blood diamonds entering the legitimate diamond supply chain, only 18百分之百 of retailers have a policy to ensure that their diamonds are compliant with the Kimberley Process, according to a survey conducted in 2006 by Amnesty International. Some estimates say that up to 30百分之百 of the rough output of some diamond mines is smuggled out illegally, and although many may call that a significant progress compared to the original ,Tiffany Jewelry On Sale, numbers, in terms of lives, those numbers are huge. So what does it take to bring those percents down to 门里出身? What does it take to ensure that every 5 year old has the opportunity to learn the definition of "childhood" and lead a healthy lifestyle? What does it take to ensure that the jewelry on our hands, fingers and necks doesn't carry the weight of a human life and exploitation? What does it take to destroy the callous cruelty that comes with ambition and desire?

"War is the price of peace" some say, but are we really content with such a statement? Don't you want to challenge it, prove it wrong, and refuse to believe it? The problem with the world is that people have forgotten what it is like ,Tiffany Rings, to fight for a cause; they have forgotten that there are things that are worth the bruises and cuts, and the lives of children are one of them. The illegal trade of diamonds must be stopped. The apparition of one more blood diamond in the world signifies the sufferings of a human being, and can we really close our eyes on that?

Diamonds are forever, but lives are not. Stop the mutilation, become aware of things that matter, and make sure that your diamond has not originated from the sweat of the child with the huge eyes, imprisoned in the perpetual darkness of a mine.