The Investors’ Chronicle (UK) reports that results for Vedanta Resources’ full year to March 2009 revealed good financial health in spite of the commodity market collapse. Plunging metals prices meant a $1.4bn (£929m) drop in …
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Vedanta pushing ahead
Goa Cursed By Its Mineral Wealth
Set on India’s west coast, Goa is renowned as a beach paradise popular with Indian and foreign tourists alike. Just a few miles inland from the quaint restaurants and the pristine waves lapping the silver …
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Copper-bottomed market changes
London Calling on a copper conundrum which probably isn’t
We may be forgiven for failing to understand the forces which, over the past half year of the collapse of debt “securitisation”, have stimulated an increase …
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LMN groups’ submissions to Joint Committee on Human Rights
LMN member group Forest Peoples’ Programme has made a submission to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into business and human rights. FPP’s submission deals with Indigenous Peoples and the right to …
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Lost opportunity for coal mine workers
London Calling regrets a lost opportunity for coal mine workers
In March, under the auspices of the British National Union of Mineworkers and Australia’s CFMEU, a hundred and twenty delegates, belonging to 20 unions from …
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Problems with coal
The Mines and Communities website has published a number of reports on the coal industry.
A mixed bag of coal-related “policies”
In 2006-2008 nuclear (uranium) power became the fashionable “alternative energy” solution for some people …
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Controversial mine on Bushman land shelved as recession hits diamond industry
The planned diamond mine at the centre of an international controversy over the forced relocation of Botswana’s Bushmen has been shelved due to the global recession. Demand for diamonds has collapsed in recent months, and …
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Rio Tinto responds to criticisms at AGM
At the invitation of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Rio Tinto has responded to some of the concerns raised at its 15 April London AGM. See http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/269440.…
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Seeing through Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto takes step towards transparency by publishing payments to governments
Rio Tinto has taken an important step towards transparency by voluntarily disclosing, for the first time, the total tax and royalty payments that it …
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Africa: Mining Profit for People
Large mining operations in Africa have generated big profits for foreign companies, with little local benefit. Now governments are trying to harness more mining revenues for development purposes.
This UN report is of relevance to …
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Report: The Reality of Rights
Full report available at http://www.corporate-responsibility.org
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
and The Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition
Media Briefing
The Reality of Rights
A new report reveals the reality for victims of …
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