Cecilia Gardner

General Counsel of the World Diamond Council

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General Counsel and a Founding Member of the World Diamond Council, an organization of producers and dealers to end illegal diamond trading

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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,…

Conflict Diamonds

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,…

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