Cerrejon Coal joins Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI)
GBI has formally announced that the Initiative’s core group of members will be joined by Colombian mining company Cerrejon Coal, a joint venture of London-listed Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata.
GBI states that its aim is to advance human rights in business around the world. Core membership of the Initiative now includes: ABB, Cerrejon, Flextronics, [...]
Request for urgent action to support Colombian Indigenous leaders
Last October, Wayuu Indigenous leader Karmen Ramirez Boscan was in London as a guest of London Mining Network member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign. She came to Britain for the AGM of mining multinational BHP Billiton, which is one of the three multinational owners of the Cerrejon coal mine. The other two are Anglo American and [...]
Union, Contract Workers Continue Fight for Work Rights at Cerrejón in Colombia
The struggle continues for trade union rights for contract workers at Colombia’s vast mining complex, Carbones del Cerrejón. ICEM mining affiliate Sintracarbón has been fighting to organize the contract workers at the mine. ICEM is the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions. Carbones del Cerrejon is owned by London-listed Anglo American, [...]
UK Parliamentary human rights committee issues report on UK businesses
In 2009, the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights conducted an inquiry on business and human rights.
London Mining Network and a number of its member groups and associates made submissions to this inquiry.
Volume 1 of the Committee’s report includes conclusions and recommendations. The cross-party Committee of both Houses of Parliament is very critical of [...]
Expanded alternative report on BHP Billiton
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resources company – producing oil as well as coal, copper, diamonds, iron ore, manganese, nickel, uranium and a number of other minerals – boasts of a strong reputation for corporate responsibility. Communities affected by its operations may well believe that such a reputation is unjustified.
London Mining Network and others [...]
