Posts tagged "Monterrico Metals"

Calls to amend UK Financial Services Bill to ensure human rights standards

Lisa Nandy MP and John McDonnell MP called yesterday for the British Government’s Financial Services Bill to be amended so that companies wishing to list on UK Stock Exchanges would need to report on their …
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Peru: Undermining Justice

If multinationals will do anything to control the public debate, how can indigenous peoples ever assert their rights?

See new film on Monterrico Metals by award-winning film-maker and LMN supporter Mikey Watts at http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/05/20125311829466420.html.…
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Rio Blanco and the Conga Fallout

According to the Peruvian Human Rights Ombudsman, today there are over 20 ‘latent conflicts’ related to extractive activity in the country. Many such disputes are likely to flare up once more as GarcĂ­a-era suspensions expire …
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Report calls for stricter regulation of UK mining companies

Report calls for stricter regulation of UK mining companies

London Mining Network has today published a report calling on the government to include a review of regulatory regimes as part of the current discussion on the Financial Services Bill. The Bill is replacing the …
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The UK’s scandalous legal aid bill is a threat to global human rights

Under ruggedly beautiful mountains close to Peru’s border with Ecuador lie billions of dollars worth of copper owned by British-based firm Monterrico Metals. In August 2005, hundreds of Peruvian subsistence farmers and their families …
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Peruvian activist priest escapes violent ambush

The attack occurred on the evening of Thursday 15 September in the region of the Majaz mining copper concession, owned by the Chinese corporation Zijin (and formerly owned by Monterrico Metals of Britain). Father Arana …
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Royalty and rights issues in Latin America

BHP Billiton has settled a royalty dispute with the Colombian government – thus enabling the world’s second biggest mining company to continuing operating its Cerro Matoso nickel mine. (At the same time, fifty five workers …
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Peru’s Congress passes Indigenous Peoples’ mining consultation law

Peru’s Congress has taken an important step toward incorporating  the International Labor Organisation’s convention on the rights of Indigenous Peoples (ILO 169) into law, since the convention was ratified in 1994.

Although broadly welcomed as …
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CAFOD urges mining firm Monterrico to clean up its act

Last week, Monterrico Metals settled out of court with torture survivors in Peru. The company insisted that details of the settlement be kept secret. (See http://www.leighday.co.uk/news/news-archive-2011/peruvian-torture-victims-compensated-by-uk-miner.)

CAFOD’s senior analyst on the extractives industry, Karen …
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Peruvian torture claimants compensated by UK mining company

Press release from Leigh Day and Co

20 July 2011

Legal proceedings by 33 Peruvians against UK-based Monterrico Metals PLC have been settled by compensation payments, without admitting liability. The London High Court trial was …
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Film: 2nd December

This is the story of the December 2009 attack by the police on the village of Cajas Canchaque, located in the North of Peru, where two farmers were shot dead. Police entered the village, a …
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More than 40% of Paramos in Northern Peru under mining concession

More than 40% of the paramo in the northwesterly department of Piura, Peru is under mining concessions. These high altitude wetlands are vital sources of water for the arid lowlands where important export agriculture operations …
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