One of India’s leading social activists – well known for his opposition to unacceptable mining projects – has been arrested on what appear to be trumped-up charges. A north Indian religious leader, who led his community in a fight to stop stone...
Villagers confront the country’s biggest minerals project Last week we reported on the resistance by hundreds of villagers, seeking to prevent seizure of their land and betel nut groves in Orissa. They are literally lying down in the face of the biggest proposed...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has frozen all new loans to Glencore and its subsidiaries, citing “serious concerns” over the group’s corporate governance. The allegations center on claims that the world’s largest metals commodities’...
The environmental and human rights organization CEDHA along with two other environmental groups, lodged a complaint today against Xstrata Copper in Australia, accusing the multinational mining company of destroying glaciers and permafrost in two of its operations in...
Late last week, thousands of villagers lay down (literally) on land coveted by POSCO for India’s biggest planned industrial project in Orissa, in an attempt to prevent hundreds of armed police from evicting them. As we went to press the villagers –...
New report from LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign Gold prices have surged in recent years. As a result of the ‘investor friendly’ climate promoted by the Colombian government’s ‘democratic security’ policies, multinationals have...
