Nongovernmental organisation (NGO) Partnership Africa Canada (PAC), in its campaign against conflict diamonds, has turned its attention to evidence of a "large and growing trade in illicit rough diamonds, running in parallel with the Kimberley Process (KP) certification scheme", which is supposed to eliminate the practice. The organisation's annual review, which was released last week and covers the diamond trade in 13 countries in Africa and South America, describes how an increasingly "formulaic" Kimberley Process regulatory system, once considered "a glass three-quarters full", is becoming less, rather than more, effective in curtailing abuse and criminality.
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