LMN submission to UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights
The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) called in March for evidence to be presented to an inquiry into business and human rights. The JCHR’s call for evidence is posted below London Mining Network’s submission. 1 May 2009 Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into business and human rights The [...]
News about Monterrico Metals’ Rio Blanco project, Peru
From the Vicaría del Medio Ambiente de Jaén VIMA 31 March 2009 Charge of terrorism dropped again On the third of March 2009, the provincial department of the public prosecutor in Piura dropped the charges against the 35 accused of terrorism (amongst them mayors, leaders of local communities, defenders of human rights and environmentalists). All [...]
Peru blames police in copper mine torture case
Peruvian prosecutors have accused police of torturing protesters at a mining camp in 2005 but cleared a British-Chinese metals company and its security firm of wrongdoing. Lawyers for Fedepaz, the rights group that filed the complaint along with the National Coordinating Committee, denounced the findings as incomplete. “The prosecutors have decided to blame some of [...]
London Calling asks: who’s taking AIM – and why has no-one been fired?
The London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), set up in 1995, has provided a highly significant boost to London’s emerging role as the global centre for mining-related finance. Companies listed on AIM have contributed measurably to the number of abuses committed, or threatened, against mining-impacted communities and the environment over the last few years. [...]
Peru: Death threats against journalist who exposed Monterrico
Journalist Julio César Vásquez Calle is pursuing a complaint to the Piura region prosecutor’s office against police officers and mining company security guards he claims tortured him while he was reporting on a protest in March 2005. On 5 February he received a phone call from a man who told him he would be killed [...]
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