When winter comes to Utah and atmospheric conditions trap a soup of pollutants close to the ground, doctors say it turns every resident in the Salt Lake basin into the equivalent of a cigarette smoker.…
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Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott Utah Copper Blamed By Doctors And Moms For Pollution
Human rights of women and girls at ‘extreme risk’ in nearly half the world
Companies operating in resource-rich countries risk complicity in actions by security forces against women. The results of the Women’s and Girls’ Right Index (WGRI), released by risk analysis and mapping company Maplecroft, reveal that the …
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HudBay gets out of Guatemala – but won’t escape
Canada’s HudBay Minerals is about to sell all its interests in Guatemala’s Fenix project. Almost certainly one of the prompts for its withdrawal is the murder of a man, and the alleged gang-rapes of eleven …
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Australia’s boomtown curse
An Al Jazeera report on the costs in Australia’s mining boom
See http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/08/20118284435996818.html.…
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Further Goldcorp human rights issues in Guatemala and Honduras
On 7 July 2010, Diodora Antonia Hernandez Cinto (a Mayan-Mam campesina woman from the mountainous village of San Jose Nueva Esperanza) was shot point-blank in the head and left for dead by two local men …
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HudBay loses out to Mayan community in Guatemala
Guatemala’s highest court has made a precedent-setting decision in favor of a small Maya Q’eqchi’ indigenous community of Agua Caliente in Izabal province, by recognising their right to land that is occupied by Canada’s HudBay …
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Empowering women through EITI
EITI is the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
Why should we be concerned about extractive industries (EI) and gender? Experience at the World Bank has identified what we call the extractive industries (EI) gender bias.
For …
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‘Green Gold’ fair trade inspires anti-mining advocates
What could make the world’s staunchest critics of commercial mining pause and evaluate a mechanism that could bring the status of small-scale gold producers at par with corporate mines? The International Women and Mining Network …
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Criminalized and threatened, women stand their ground against the Goldcorp mine in Guatemala
The San Marcos highlands like the rest of the country of Guatemala are almost entirely covered by mineral claims and concessions. According to the Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE) of the Diocese of San …
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Bougainville Women oppose re-opening of Panguna Mine
According to the CEO of Bougainville Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, the Panguna mine is to re-open within the next five years. His words were a direct contradiction of the words spoken by Rio …
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Women’s group opposes reopening of Bougainville mine
Women representing an indigenous landowner’s group on the Papua New Guinean island of Bougainville say they’re opposed to reopening the mine that was at the centre of a bloody civil war. Local anger towards the …
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Women sue BHP Billiton mine in Canada for discrimination
Two women who say they suffered harassment and gender discrimination while training to work at the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories have launched a $10-million lawsuit against the mine owners and their trainers. …
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