Blood Diamonds Working Conditions. Governments in both countries have a solid record of working with both the industrial mining industry and artisanal miners to enforce strong labor and environmental standards. Besides being grossly underpaid many diamond miners work in extremely dangerous conditions.
Most of these miners work in harmful environments and earn less than a dollar a day. These attacks can be on the scale of a large military operation. Exploiting workers dangerous working conditions child labor and extremely low pay are attributes of these diamonds.
In the movie Blood Diamond the characters choices and actions are limited by outside events such as the diamond trade the fight for independence the corruption of the government in Sierra Leone the decisions of the United Nations and the complexities of international.
Blood diamonds are often produced through the forced labor of men women and children under deplorable working conditions. The conditions we uncovered in Marange together with the knowledge that so-called blood diamonds are a key source of revenue for Zimbabwes abusive government prompted Human Rights Watch to take. Exploiting workers dangerous working conditions child labor and extremely low pay are attributes of these diamonds. Small-scale diamond mining is often conducted without training or expertise.
