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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Calls to amend UK Financial Services Bill to ensure human rights standards
Last updated: May 23, 2012
Peru: Undermining Justice
Last updated: May 4, 2012
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
Last updated: Apr 5, 2012
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 García-era suspensions expire …
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The UK’s scandalous legal aid bill is a threat to global human rights
Last updated: Nov 10, 2011
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
Last updated: Oct 8, 2011
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
Last updated: Sep 13, 2011
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
Last updated: Aug 31, 2011
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 updated: Jul 28, 2011
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
Last updated: Jul 22, 2011
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
Last updated: Feb 16, 2011
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
Last updated: Dec 8, 2010
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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