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Globalise struggle, globalise hope – reflections from BHP education project
In the second year of LMN’s BHP Witness project, we conducted two workshops at Kingston University with first year students around the annual shareholders’ meeting of mining giant BHP, in October. The first was an introduction to the issues – what is BHP, who are the...
Dangerous levels of mercury found in river in Colombian region of La Guajira
Cerrejon, an opencast coal mine in the north east of Colombia, is the largest coal mine in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. Cerrejon is owned by Carbones del Cerrejón – made up of three London-listed companies: Anglo American, BHP and Glencore. Over...
PRESS RELEASE: Alternative awards ceremony to turn spotlight on mining industry
Environmental campaigners will present alternative awards including the ‘ruthless destroyer award’ to mining executives as they arrive at London’s prestigious ‘Mines and Money’ Gala Dinner in London this Tuesday. The awards will seek to highlight the struggles of...
VIDEO – Unmasking BHP: challenging the world’s largest mining company
Last month four human rights defenders from Latin America travelled to London to speak truth to power at the British-Australian mining giant's annual shareholders' meeting, as part of a week of action, Unmasking BHP. The company announced at its meeting that more...
BHP’s London AGM, Thursday 17 October 2019: a fight between a tethered donkey and a tiger
Report by Diana Salazar and Richard Solly with assistance from Benjamin Hitchcock, Glen Mpufane, Liz Umlas, Paul Robson and Seb Ordonez. 1. As a lively demonstration against BHP continued outside the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, the company's AGM began...
Open letter to BHP on anniversary of Samarco dam collapse
At 1.15pm today, representatives from London Mining Network, War on Want and Global Justice Now tried to hand in a letter at BHP's London office, addressed to the company's chair Ken MacKenzie, on the fourth anniversary of Brazil's Samarco tailings dam collapse....
Press release: letter hand-in at BHP office on anniversary of Samarco dam collapse
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Fundão tailings (mine waste) dam disaster in Mariana, a town in the Southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The Fundão dam and the associated iron ore mine, called Samarco, is operated by a mining company of the same name –...
Unmasking BHP: frontline defenders inside the company’s AGM
BHP held its London AGM (annual shareholders' meeting) on Thursday 17 October. We aim to publish a full report and commentary on the AGM in the coming days. For now, we report on what the four participants in our October speaker tour said to the company's directors...
Unmasking BHP: Human rights defenders meet with investors
On 22 October, four frontline defenders in the UK for Unmasking BHP week met with BHP investors in Westminster, London. This was minutes walk away from where BHP held its annual general meeting (AGM) on 17 October. In a first for LMN and Local Authority Pension Fund...
PRESS RELEASE: Frontline defenders expose BHP’s role in climate breakdown
15/10/19 - For immediate release Frontline human rights defenders travel from Latin America to the UK to share their experiences of climate breakdown, the threat of violence and the greenwashing tactics of multinational mining company BHP Human rights and...