A blood diamond (also conflict diamond ) is a diamond that originates from areas of conflict (in Africa ), the proceeds from diamond sales is used to rebel groups to finance.
The United Nations (UN) to try a certification system to enter, so it is difficult to make. conflict diamonds to the man On 19 July 2000, at the World Diamond Congress in Antwerp approved. resolution to that effect
Another material that is exploited in the same way is coltan that is very suitable for the production of capacitors for mobile phones and other electronic devices.
In the 2006 film made Blood Diamond is about trade and the fight against blood diamonds.
The supermodel Naomi Campbell was in the news because they were in 2010 Leidschendam was questioned as a witness in the Sierra Leone tribunal against former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor , whom she would have gotten. blood diamond