Surviving an existential crisis such as this one, requires both a business and human perspective. In which direction will we steer our companies? Our own moral and ethical compass should be guiding our direction.
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Surviving an existential crisis such as this one, requires both a business and human perspective. In which direction will we steer our companies? Our own moral and ethical compass should be guiding our direction.
Edward Asscher will serve as WDC President and Feriel Zerouki becomes the first woman to serve as WDC Vice President.
When I left Freetown, Sierra Leone, to fly home to my family in London on March 11, I expected to be back in West Africa within weeks. How could I have known that fewer than 10 days later the Government of Sierra Leone would announce the closure of all border crossings and international arrivals via air, and that I would be sitting in my living room in London while writing this piece.
My goal was to create an advocacy platform and community-level pressure group that would promote the empowerment of women and the wellbeing of young people within the mining communities in Sierra Leone.
As Chow Tai Fook approaches the 100th year since its founding, it has announced what it refers to as its Centennial Commitment.
Our huge trading hall, which is usually teeming with activity, is now fairly empty because of restrictions that allow only 100 people access at a time. Who would have imagined a diamond exchange with no handshakes to seal transactions?
Edward Asscher, President of the World Diamond Council, has expressed the WDC’s strong support for an agreement announced today by the De Beers Group’s GemFair initiative, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Mano River Union (MRU), according to which the three bodies will collaborate in the development and delivery of a regional training program that promotes safe and responsible operating standards in the artisanal and small-scale mining sectors (ASM) in the MRU member countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast.
During the lockdown we found that there was a demand among diamantaires in Israel and around the world for a new and transparent international trading platform.
The economic crisis that struck in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted in unprecedented ways on China’s jewelry retail markets and their supply chains.
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