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, [...]
Response to GCM Resources’ statement to UK Parliamentary Committee
In 2009, the UK Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights conducted an inquiry into UK business and human rights. It published its report in December. Among the submissions were some that were critical of GCM Resources over its Phulbari coal project in Bangladesh. The report also included a statement from GCM Resources, rejecting the criticisms [...]
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 [...]
Australian coal miners call 3-day strike against Xstrata
It may have been announced as only a three-day strike at a relatively small colliery. However, discontent by Australian workers with UK-Swiss mining giant, Xstrata, has been boiling throughout the past year. Earlier this month, workers at the company’s Tahmoor mine in New South Wales decided to stop work in support of their demands for [...]
21 injured, 61 arrested in South African protest against BHP Billiton
Twenty-one people were injured and 61 were arrested in Ogies, Mpumalanga, on Thursday in protests against BHP Billiton – the second violent action targeting a mining company in the past two weeks, police said. They included three police officials, who were injured on the shoulder, mouth and head when stones and bottles were thrown at [...]
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