Protestors demonstrate outside Tiffany & Co

Protestors from Survival International made a stand outside Tiffany & Co stores in London, San Francisco, Madrid, Paris and Berlin. The protesters claim that the international jeweller funds water boreholes for game animals on Bushman land where the people are forbidden access to their own borehole. 

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Fast Facts on
Wedding rings

  • 860 AD:The year Christians started using rings in marriage ceremonies.
  • 4th:The finger the ring is placed on.
  • 2,200BC:The year of the oldest recorded exchange of wedding rings in ancient Egypt.
  • 1854:The year in which the manufacture of 15ct, 12ct and 9ct became legal.

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