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December 8, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Global Witness Leaves Kimberley Process

An illegal diamond dealer from Zimbabwe displays diamonds for sale in Manica, near the border with Zimbabwe, September 19, 2010. (Goran Tomasevic/Courtesy Reuters) Yesterday, Global Witness announce…

Global Witness Leaves Kimberley Process
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

May 15, 2024

India
Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: India's 2024 General Elections

Lisa Curtis, senior fellow and director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at Center for a New American Security, and Milan Vaishnav, senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Car…

Play India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves towards his supporters during a roadshow in Varanasi, India.
Webinar by Lisa Curtis, Milan Vaishnav, and Alyssa Ayres Religion and Foreign Policy Webinars

June 10, 2016

Wars and Conflict
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Labor Rights in Supply Chains, Bank Secrecy Act, and the Kimberley Process

Supply Chains Take Center Stage at International Labor Conference Of the $26 trillion in commerce flowing around the world, over 70 percent are intermediate goods. This reflects the rise of global …

A man displays a rough diamond, from the Boda region, for sale in Bangui May 1, 2014. Despite a 2013 ban on diamond exports by The Kimberley Process, a global watchdog set up to stop the trade in "blood diamonds", rough diamonds are still commonly offered for sale in Central African Republic (Reuters/Emmanuel Braun).
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Development Channel

March 22, 2023

Thailand
Thailand’s Parliament Has Been Dissolved: Elections Loom, But Will They Be Free?

Thailand’s upcoming elections may not be free and fair.

Paetongtarn Shinawatra as seen during an election campaign event.
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

May 21, 2015

Wars and Conflict
Holding Sudan to the Gold Standard

Although it may have slipped from headlines, the conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur has not disappeared. Indeed, the region has seen almost unabated violence for over a decade, notably spik…

Military personnel walk past women in Tabit village in North Darfur, Sudan. The joint peacekeeping mission in the region known as UNAMID visited Tabit in November 2014 to investigate media reports of an alleged mass rape of 200 women and girls (Courtesy Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters).
Blog Post by Catherine Powell Development Channel