BankTrack launches Dodgy Deal World Map

Nijmegen, February 15, 2011: BankTrack today launches the Dodgy Deal map, a new tool to present the involvement of private sector banks in the worldwide financing of controversial deals and companies. The world map allows …
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Cultural Survival Launches Campaign to Halt Coal Mine in Bangladesh

February 9, 2011

Media Contacts:
Paula Palmer, Director, Global Response Program, Cultural Survival, 00 1 303 444-0306, paula@cs.org
Joanna Levitt, Executive Director, International Accountability Project, 00 1 415-659-0555, joanna@accountabilityproject.org
Rumana Hashem, International Correspondent of the …
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Marching against GCM Resources

PRESS RELEASE

HUMAN CHAIN TO PROTEST OPEN-PIT MINING IN PHULBARI

LONDON, 30 October 2010 – A human chain forming event has been observed in Altab Ali Park in East London on the 29th October 2010 …
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Jubilee Ianra protest against Anglo Platinum

Anglo Platinum is controlled by London-based Anglo American plc.

Jubilee South Africa and IANRA South Africa Press Statement, 25 October 2010

Jubilee Mokopane will be marching with the support of IANRA South Africa to the …
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Dark Materials: the consequences of clinging to coal

Mines and Communities launches a global Special Report

Is our planet going up in smoke?

NEWS RELEASE

From: Mines and Communities, London

1 September 2010

Prospects are now dwindling that a binding Climate Change treaty …
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Anglo American subsidiary under fire again in South Africa

Press Release from the Bench Marks Foundation, http://www.bench-marks.org.za/

Anglo Platinum employee accused of disrupting community meeting

The Bench Marks Foundation has expressed its concern suggesting that an employee of Anglo Platinum was instrumental in …
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BankTrack calls on banks to stop funding nuclear power

BankTrack, in cooperation with a number of working partners, today (26 May 2010) launches http://www.nuclearbanks.org, a new website mapping the involvement of 45 leading commercial banks in funding nuclear power projects and companies active …
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London Mining plc condemned in Sierra Leone

NB There is no connection between London Mining plc and London Mining Network!

National Advocacy Coalition on the Extractives (NACE), Sierra Leone

MEDIA RELEASE
Freetown, 4 March 2010

Dangerous draft mining contract about to be
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Communities protest against British-based mining companies in South Africa

The press statement below mentions Richard Spoor. Richard Spoor is a human rights lawyer who has represented communities resisting encroachment on their land by mining companies. He is currently being sued for defamation by Anglo
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Killings of smallscale miners in Colombia

FEDEAGROMISBOL is the Federacion de Agromineros del Sur de Bolivar (Federation of Smallscale Miners of the South of Bolivar) in Colombia. The Federation sees a link between the assassinations and the interest of AngloGold Ashanti
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ANGLO PLATINUM: HANDS OFF RICHARD SPOOR!

Anglo Platinum is a subsidiary of London-based Anglo American

Jubilee South Africa PRESS ALERT, Date: 12/2/2010
COMMUNITY TO PICKET ON 15 FEB AT PRETORIA HIGH COURT!
ANGLO PLATINUM: HANDS OFF RICHARD SPOOR!

Community members from …
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Vedanta resources’ statement on Amnesty report is full of errors and omissions, says Amnesty

Amnesty International today (10 February) reacted to a statement from Vedanta Resources, which was distributed by a marketing agency in Delhi yesterday, regarding Amnesty’s 9 February report “Don’t Mine Us Out of Existence”. The statement …
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