London Mining Network has joined the Legal and Human Rights Centre, RAID, CORE and MiningWatch Canada in signing an open letter to the board of Acacia Mining, calling for an improvement in the company’s human rights record in Tanzania. Informal miners working on...
Our friends at RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) recently published a report called ‘Bribery in its purest form’: Och-Ziff, asset laundering and the London connection. A recent article in the Guardian pointed out that wealthy countries like the UK gain...
‘Glencore’s ruthless cost-cutting harms communities in the Congo’, say NGOs A new in-depth study about Glencore’s Congolese mines – ‘PR or Progress? Glencore’s Corporate Responsibility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ’ – published by Rights and...
In its new report Och-Ziff, Mugabe’s “Bagmen” and the underpricing of African assets, RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) calls on the US authorities to investigate a number of questionable transactions in Africa by Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC...
Press release from CORE, London Mining Network and RAID, 23 April 2014 Investors in African Barrick Gold (ABG) must use tomorrow’s AGM to ask questions of the company’s leadership regarding alleged human rights abuses at the North Mara Mine, Tanzania. ABG pays the...