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  • 4 Apr 2011
    Debt, gold and the IMF windfall

    On 6 April 2011 the International Monetary Fund is meeting in Washington DC to discuss for the first time how to spend a $3 billion windfall from selling gold and lending more money since the financial crisis.

  • 26 May 2009
    Support fair trade diamonds and gold

    Civil wars in countries such as Angola, Sierra Leone and the Congo have often been funded by the sale of ‘conflict diamonds’.

  • 25 Apr 2007
    Jewellers agree to wash dirty gold clean

    Campaigners from Catholic aid agency CAFOD have gone to the heart of the country’s gold trade and handed in a symbolic gold paper chain representing nearly 45,000 signatures calling for an end to 'dirty gold'.