9-12-2020
CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, was invited to participate the United Nations General Assembly organised in New York as the only jewellery and gemstone industries representative in Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), presented a written statement to the body.
The COVID-19 pandemic was described as the greatest global health crisis since the creation of the United Nations 75 years ago, with fundamental humanitarian, socio-economic, security and human rights implications. Regarding to the Covid-19 pandemic, CIBJO said the case is almost the same with all other business sectors, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the jewellery and gemstone industries presented a range of challenges that had never really been considered.
“Hundreds of millions of individuals, mainly living in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, are dependent upon the revenues generated by the extraction of precious metals, diamonds and coloured gemstones for their livelihoods. Many of them are involved in artisanal and small-scale mining, and lack the protections afforded to employees of the larger, industrialized mining operations,” CIBJO stated.
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