Remembrance, resistance and legal proceedings

Remembrance, resistance and legal proceedings

Dear friends, Monday 25 January was the second anniversary of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho in Brazil. Vale is a Brazilian mining company with significant UK investment. We worked with our friends in Brazil to mark...
Declaration on the assassination of Aldemar Parra Garcia

Declaration on the assassination of Aldemar Parra Garcia

Monday, January 23rd 2017 The undersigning organizations condemn the assassination of Aldemar Parra García and express our deepest condolences to his family. Facts On January 7, Aldemar was assassinated by two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle on the route from El...
British banks backing coal

British banks backing coal

Our friends at BankTrack have recently published three briefings on British banks’ funding of the coal industry. It describes Royal Bank of Scotland as ‘the new “green bank” that still can’t shake off coal sector financing’. Its report on...