More than 100 protesters from Foil Vedanta and other organisations crowded the entrance to Vedanta Resources’ London AGM and poured red paint on the steps yesterday in an attempt to disrupt the meeting. In Goa …
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Global day of action against Vedanta draws thousands in London, Odisha and Goa!
Vedanta AGM: press coverage
Mining giant’s AGM under siege over rights abuses
Vedanta Resources, the controversial London-based mining giant accused of serious abuses at its sites in India, came under sustained attack at its AGM yesterday as big institutional …
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Vedanta AGM report
Notes on the Vedanta AGM held at the Lincoln Centre, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, Tuesday 28 August 2012.
Chairman Anil Agarwal said that it had been a ‘transformational year’ and that the company had achieved …
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PROTESTS RAIL AGAINST VEDANTA’S AGM IN LONDON, INDIA AND ZAMBIA
The Vedanta AGM on 28 August was dominated by the company’s critics and a lively demonstration. Click on photo for more.
Dongria’s message to Vedanta ahead of AGM: “We won’t leave our land”
Ahead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has sent a strong message to the company’s chairman Anil Agarwal. ‘Even if Anil Agarwal himself comes here, we won’t leave …
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India orders Vedanta subsidiary to shut coke unit on pollution
Sesa Goa, owned by miner Vedanta Resources, must shut its 280,000 metric tons per year metallurgical coke unit in western Goa state after complaints about pollution, a State Pollution Board official said. Shares of Sesa …
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Human rights groups to protest Vedanta AGM
London Mining Network press release
What: AGM of controversial London-listed mining company Vedanta
When: Tuesday 28 August at 3pm
Where: Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED
Controversial, India-based mining company Vedanta will …
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Vedanta’s pollution of water in Zambia
This report from Southern Africa Resource Watch, one of the organisations on the ground in Zambia, was written for Foil Vedanta for the 2012 Vedanta AGM demonstration.
It reveals the ongoing pollution of groundwater for …
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Vedanta’s human rights promises are ‘meaningless and hollow’ – Amnesty
Amnesty International UK PRESS RELEASE
INDIA: VEDANTA’S HUMAN RIGHTS PROMISES ARE ‘MEANINGLESS AND HOLLOW’
New briefing undermines FTSE 100 company on day of its AGM Spokesperson available on request
Amnesty International today accused the UK-registered …
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Indian villagers protest pollution by Vedanta subsidiary
Thousands of villagers from Navelim in the Indian state of Goa protested yesterday against Vedanta subsidiary Sesa Goa’s metallurgical coke plant in the village, claiming that it is polluting their surroundings.
Sundar Gawas, one of the …
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Foil Vedanta demonstration: Stop the 2012 AGM!
Stop Vedanta’s Profit from Death and Destruction!
28 August 2012 2.00 pm Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED Nearest tube Holborn (Piccadilly & Central lines) or Chancery Lane (Central).
Why Peoples’ Movements …
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Public sector pension fund pulls out of Vedanta
The pensions of hundreds of public sector workers in Northern Ireland are no longer financing controversial UK-mining firm Vedanta Resources, which was accused by Amnesty International of breaching people’s human rights through its bauxite and …
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