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Event: Thursday, 31 October, What Does It Mean To Be An Internationalist Today?
Celebration of New Internationalist's 40th anniversary 7 - 10pm, Amnesty International UK Human Rights Action Centre. Join New Internationalist editors and guest speakers including: Lindsey Hilsum (Channel 4), Dan Smith (International Alert), John Hilary (War on...
Britain’s Olympic medals mining company in court in Utah
London Mining Network press release 23 September 2103 London-based mining multinational Rio Tinto, which provided the metal for the 2012 Olympic medals, is in court in Utah this Tuesday (24 September) for air pollution at the very mine from which most of the Olympic...
Landmark settlement of South African miners' silicosis claims against Anglo American
Legal Resources Centre, Legal Aid South Africa and Leigh Day & Co Press release 25 September 2013 Landmark settlement of President Steyn miners’ claims against AngloAmerican boosts fight for silicosis compensation The long-running President Steyn gold miners’...
Anglo American charged for breaching environmental laws in Chile
Chile's environmental regulator, the SMA, is bringing charges against mining giant Anglo American's local division, after inspections conducted last April showed the company breached several environmental laws. According to local newspaper La Segunda, the SMA...
Gold mining in Greece: London meeting hears stories of resistance and repression
Last week Lazaros Toskas, member of the Struggle Coordinating Committee of Megali Panagia, shared stories of resistance against Eldorado Gold's Skouries project at a meeting in London organized by London Mining Network, Corporate Watch and Greece Solidarity Campaign....
BHP Billiton in trouble again in Papua New Guinea
The Ok Tedi mine in PNG The Faustian Contract between BHP and PNG After killing one of the world’s most important rivers and subjecting hundreds of thousands of Western Province peoples to continuing environmental impacts, BHP Billiton pledged to give back its shares...
Vedanta funding may land Indian political parties in the soup
The Congress and the BJP Parties have been receiving huge amounts in funds from Anil Agarwal’s London-based Vedanta Group through its subsidiaries in India, raising questions from a civil society group over the alleged foreign funding of the political parties. Between...
Historic call from Ecuador and numerous Nation States for the United Nations to implement binding regulations on Transnational Corporations
Over 100 social movements and civil society organizations representing hundreds of thousands workers, peasants, community and indigenous peoples have welcomed the historic call by nine countries together with the African and Arab Groups for binding obligations on...
ENRC wages battle over leaks as London departure nears
London-listed Kazakh miner ENRC is pressing ahead with its battle against a former board member whom it accuses of orchestrating damaging leaks, handing a London court what it says are transcripts of conversations detailing sensitive information. ENRC is set to delist...
London Metal Exchange warehousing plan fails to entice
The London Metal Exchange (LME) may have to return to the drawing board as enthusiasm wanes for its third attempt in as many years to head off a crisis over its warehouse system. Storage firms owned by big banks and trade houses have made money by building stocks in...