by kevin | Aug 21, 2014 | News
This guest post by Kerima Mohideen is the first in an occasional series looking at women involved in resisting the impacts of the international mining industry. Eight per cent of the Indian population are Adivasis (Indigenous people),which amounts to over 84 million...
by kevin | Jun 13, 2014 | News
This guest blog by Peter Frankental of Amnesty International UK first appeared on the Institute for Human Rights and Business website. Those of a certain age may remember that quintessentially British comedy Fawlty Towers where the hotel owner, Basil Fawlty, has to...
by kevin | Apr 14, 2014 | Press Releases
Come join a demonstration outside from 9.30am on Tuesday outside the Rio Tinto AGM at the QE II Conference Centre, SW1. A mother-of-four who was recently jailed for 58 days for confronting mining injustice against her community in Madagascar has travelled to London to...
by kevin | Feb 14, 2014 | News
A new report from Platform and the Algeria Solidarity Campaign has criticised the role of oil and gas companies and the UK in financing the military dictatorship in Algeria that has quashed democratic dissent for many decades. In a 2013 report, Amnesty International...
by kevin | Feb 4, 2014 | News
This blog post by Andy Whitmore originally appeared on the PIPLinks website. On 30th January, the relatively minor Australian ‘miner’ Indophil released their quarterly report for the three months ending 31 December 2013. Such standard reporting fare hardly registers...
by kevin | Jan 22, 2014 | News
London Mining Network has just launched a new-look website. The new layout is intended to make it easier to use for people who do not know quite where to begin. So we have added a ‘Getting Started’ page with some basic building blocks and pointers to...
