South Africa’s Ba-Phalaborwa Indigenous Community is demanding justice from Rio Tinto for years of mining without the community’s consent and for its planned exit from the Palabora copper mine without paying adequate compensation for loss of lands and livelihoods....
This post was advertised previously and is being readvertised with a new application deadline of 18 September. LMN is a network of 28 organisations concerned about the social and ecological impacts of London-based and London-financed mining companies. We work to...
With the problems facing foreign mining giants Vedanta, Glencore and African Barrick Gold, is the multicultural flavour of the FTSE100 beneficial for the UK economy? Multiculturalism is – to put it mildly – controversial. Some say multiculturalism it is a...
Over 12% shareholders oppose hike for Vedanta Resources top officials More than 12 per cent shareholders of Vedanta Resources Plc voted against its top deck’s 3-5 per cent salary hike for 2012-13 at the company’s annual general meeting here. Vedanta Board...
More than 100 protesters from Foil Vedanta and other organisations crowded the entrance to Vedanta Resources’ London AGM and poured red paint on the steps yesterday in an attempt to disrupt the meeting. In Goa and Odisha in India where Vedanta operates, parallel...
Mining giant’s AGM under siege over rights abuses Vedanta Resources, the controversial London-based mining giant accused of serious abuses at its sites in India, came under sustained attack at its AGM yesterday as big institutional investors echoed the...
