NEW YORK — Now that plans are in place for diamonds to be rescued from the hands of illicit traders and mines, will jewelry customers breathe a sigh of relief? Will they even notice? As reported, ...

Charges against one man accused in February of smuggling what authorities claimed were "conflict diamonds" and attempting to sell them in Tucson will be dropped. Charges against a second will be ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 30, 2006 — Two international rights organizations are urging consumers to take action this holiday season to help prevent blood diamonds from entering the legal diamond ...

Sierra Leone's "blood diamonds" helped fuel atrocities in the impoverished West African nation in the 1990s. The war has now been over for a decade, and the country's most valuable resource is no ...

At least one million African workers earn pennies a day in the backbreaking effort to find diamonds, which themselves have no intrinsic value at all, but serve as symbols of love, wealth and power, ...

NEW YORK - This holiday season some diamond retailers say they are seeing heightened consumer concern about conflict diamonds, the gems mined in war zones that are sold to fund armed conflict and ...