3. Conflict Diamond Dealer
The diamond industry is worth $60 million per year, but miners make as little as seven cents a day. Conflict diamonds are still mined in war zones and sold to finance insurgencies and warlord activities. Thanks to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, the majority of diamonds sold in the Western world come from legitimate sources, but a small number still trickle into the supply (almost exclusively from Africa, where around two thirds of the world’s diamonds are extracted) as companies are left mainly to monitor themselves and blood diamonds are not yet illegal in every country. There are still reports of murder, torture and forced labor in African mines, and aside from funding morally dubious wars and propagating a cycle of crushing poverty, many of these blood diamond mines devastate the landscape and propagate dangerous smuggling activities.