The Global Campaign Against Vedanta has issued the following press release. See below for message of support from Arundhati Roy, further reports, and press releases from ActionAid and Survival International.
PRESS RELEASE
GLOBAL DAY OF …
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Investors urged to focus attention on rights of indigenous peoples
EIRIS (Experts In Responsibile Investment Solutions) and Survival International are supporting a UN Principles for Responsible Investment programme to facilitate engagement between investors and companies to promote and respect the rights of the world’s 370 …
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Urgent appeal to UN to stop mine
15 July 2009
Survival International lodged two urgent appeals today to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India. Survival has called on both the UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee to stop Vedanta Resources’ …
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Vedanta’s Niyamgiri project given environmental clearance
A bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri hills, sacred to the Dongria Kondh people in Orissa, India, has been given environmental clearance by the Indian Government’s Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). The clearance notification …
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Controversial mine on Bushman land shelved as recession hits diamond industry
The planned diamond mine at the centre of an international controversy over the forced relocation of Botswana’s Bushmen has been shelved due to the global recession. Demand for diamonds has collapsed in recent months, and …
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New films on Niyamgiri
Surya Dash, a filmmaker from Orissa, has produced a 96 minute long documentary film Niyamgiri – The Mountain of Law. Niyamgiri is the mountain, sacred to the Dongaria Kondh people, which is threatened by …
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Troubles mount for Vedanta – OECD accepts Survival complaint as chairman faces fraud inquiry
UK mining giant Vedanta Resources was dealt a double blow as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) agreed that all the complaints made by Survival International about the company’s planned bauxite mine in …
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Survival film on Vedanta in Orissa
Survival’s new short film, ‘Mine’, tells the story of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe’s struggle to protect the mountain they worship as a God. London-based mining company Vedanta Resources plans a vast open-cast bauxite mine …
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Demonstrators target Graff Diamonds’ London store
11 February 2009
Survival International’s campaign targeting Graff Diamonds over its involvement in a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana has stepped up a gear. Thirty protestors gathered yesterday …
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