Women and children struggle against Anglo American… “Bell of Valor of Women and Children” (Kampana ng Katapangan ng mga kababaihan at Kabataan) is a short video documentary about women and children defending their land and survival against...
They’re young, educated, angry – and they’re women. They are prominent leaders of a social movement in Colombia which is fighting against a mine proposed by Africa’s leading gold mining outfit, London-listed AngloGold Ashanti. Now they’re...
Serrania de San Lucas is a rainforest-covered massif rising to 2,300 metres (7,500 feet) in northern Colombia. Despite being little-explored and containing several endangered species, the forest is threatened by industrial gold mining operations, according to the...
Only the European Union seems concerned to exercise further constraints on the military junta; Obama may now actually loosen the noose, in exchange for the release of democratic party leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. This is despite the Bush government’s claim last...
Five injured in renewed attacks at Freeport-Rio Tinto Grasberg copper/gold mine A series of attacks have resumed near Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s Grasberg’s mine in Indonesia’s Papua Province. Five Freeport employees traveling by bus were...
The Colombian Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJP) has replied to accusations against it by Muriel Mining, with which Rio Tinto has an agreement over a possible joint venture involving a copper, gold and molybdenum project in north western Colombia....
