New report from War on Want on British mining companies in Latin America
The Rivers are Bleeding: British mining in Latin America The vast expansion of mega-mining projects in Latin America is displacing indigenous communities, destroying local ecosystems, and costing lives and livelihoods. In a new report, War on Want exposes the...
BHP's long trail of disasters
Immediately before the 2018 BHP London AGM, we publish a summary of five cases where BHP has left behind severe environmental damage – and one case where if it goes ahead with a project, it may do so again....
Ten years on from the independent evaluation of Cerrejon Coal
Armed eviction of the residents of Tabaco, La Guajira, Colombia, 9 August 2001 Ten years ago, the report of an Independent Panel of Inquiry into the impacts of Cerrejon Coal was published. Cerrejon is Latin America’s largest open cast coal mine, and is owned by...
When You Strike the Women, You Strike A Rock
Learning from women’s organising in apartheid South Africa to present-day ahead of the sixth anniversary of 2012’s Marikana Massacre By Yula Burin Marikana Solidarity Collective marked South Africa’s Women’s Day on 9 August 2018 with a film...