Amnesty International UK PRESS RELEASE INDIA: VEDANTA’S HUMAN RIGHTS PROMISES ARE ‘MEANINGLESS AND HOLLOW’ New briefing undermines FTSE 100 company on day of its AGM Spokesperson available on request Amnesty International today accused the UK-registered mining company...
Thousands of villagers from Navelim in the Indian state of Goa protested yesterday against Vedanta subsidiary Sesa Goa’s metallurgical coke plant in the village, claiming that it is polluting their surroundings. Sundar Gawas, one of the protestors, said Sesa Goa had...
Stop Vedanta’s Profit from Death and Destruction! 28 August 2012 2.00 pm Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED Nearest tube Holborn (Piccadilly & Central lines) or Chancery Lane (Central). Why Peoples’ Movements are Fighting Vedanta: Vedanta...
The pensions of hundreds of public sector workers in Northern Ireland are no longer financing controversial UK-mining firm Vedanta Resources, which was accused by Amnesty International of breaching people’s human rights through its bauxite and aluminium operation in...
Chairman of Vedanta Resources, Anil Agarwal, got a little over 16 per cent hike in his annual remuneration to 2.01 million pounds in 2011-12. Agarwal’s cumulative remuneration included annual performance bonus of 0.55 million pounds and payment of 56,000 pounds...
Rapidly dwindling stock of bauxite at its refinery complex at Lanjigarh in Odisha’s (Orissa’s) Kalahandi district has forced Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) to downsize its capacity significantly. And, with bauxite stock depleting to almost ‘zero level’, the...
