Blood Diamond Action

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Action - Conflict or blood diamonds fuel conflict, civil wars and human rights abuses. An estimated 3.7 million people have died in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in conflicts fuelled by diamonds. Even now, up to $23 million of conflict diamonds are entering the legitimate diamond trade annually from Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa.

Blood Diamond movie - Against the backdrop of civil war in 1990's Sierra Leone, 'Blood Diamond' is the story of a South African mercenary (DiCaprio) and a Mende fisherman (Hounsou) struggling to find a rare diamond that the fisherman found when he was taken from his family and forced to mine for diamonds by rebels.

Find out more at the Global Witness and Amnesty International USA websites.

You can also donate to the cause here.