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Dear friends, Just before Valentine’s Day, we launched our #BehindTheBling campaign, calling on jewelry companies to tackle human rights in their supply chains and ensure their jewelry is responsibly sourced. Sadly, all too often, gold and diamonds are mined under brutal, abusive conditions, involving child and forced labor.
We are happy to let you know that over 6,400 people have emailed and countless tweets have been sent to the jewelry companies we targeted. And our pressure is starting to show results:
- The UK jeweler Boodles has pledged to revise its supplier code of conduct and to make it public; to report publicly on its human rights due diligence from 2019; and to conduct more rigorous human rights assessments.
- The German jeweler Christ has pledged to publish its supplier code of conduct and other information on its human rights due diligence efforts during 2018.
- Two other companies have started to change their practices too, but prefer not to be named.
- The Responsible Jewelry Council, an industry group with over 1,000 members, has agreed to train its auditors on human rights issues and invited us to provide input into the new version of its certification standard, the Code of Practices.
Please help us keep the pressure up! With the international jewelry trade show, BaselWorld, approaching it is time to take action and ask jewelry companies what is #BehindTheBling.
Thanks for your support! | Juliane Kippenberg
Associate Director
Children's Rights Division
Human Rights Watch
@KippenbergJ |
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