Minerals and Conflict Diamonds: Control Mechanism and Diligence in Time of Goals

  • María Pilar Diago Diago University of Zaragoza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-63-2020pp153-182
Keywords: international trade, Kimberley Process Certification (KP), conflict diamonds, conflict minerals, due diligence, human rights

Abstract

This study analyzes the legal mechanisms chosen by the European Union to combat the conflict of minerals and diamonds and human rights violations that this entails. These important regulations mark the current common commercial policy in these sectors, which directly affects international private relations and international trade; hence the importance of this study, which from these parameters is presented with a pioneering and open character. Special attention is paid to the fit into the SDGs and, in addition, a search is made for legal and implementation solutions that help this fight.

Received: 06 mayo 2020
Accepted: 02 junio 2020
Publicación en línea: 30 septiembre 2020

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Author Biography

María Pilar Diago Diago, University of Zaragoza
Professor of Private International Law at the University of Zaragoza, member of the UNESCO Chair on «Democratic Citizenship and Cultural Freedom» (785) and Vice-President of the Association of Teachers of International Law and International Relations. Director of the scientific journal Bitácora Millennium DIPr http://www.millenniumdipr.com/bitacora evaluator of the main publications in her discipline such as REEI, REDI, AEDIPr or SYBIL. She is an expert of the State Research Agency. She has given scientific conferences and has participated as a speaker and lecturer in institutions and events in Spain, Holland, Morocco, Italy, Brazil, Tunisia, Switzerland, Algeria, Portugal and Puerto Rico. She has coined the motto Everything is International! which inspires the exciting Millennium DIPr project http://www.millenniumdipr.com of which she is the coordinator. Within this framework, the project «The use of social networks and cinema in university education in the 21st century» has been awarded the 11th edition of the Santander Chair Award. She is a regular contributor to different media and works as an independent expert in various public and private organizations.
Published
2020-09-30
How to Cite
Diago Diago, María Pilar. 2020. “Minerals and Conflict Diamonds: Control Mechanism and Diligence in Time of Goals”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 63 (September), 153-82. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-63-2020pp153-182.
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No. 63 (2020): Business and Human Rights
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