A new Draft Bill to go before Parliament could significantly enforce wide powers to investigate and prosecute British companies committing bribery overseas. CAFOD welcomes the publication of the Joint Parliamentary Committee report on the Draft Bribery Bill, but calls...
JAKARTA (Reuters) – About four Indonesian investors are interested in taking over a coal project owned by BHP Billiton Ltd (BHP.AX), a senior government mining official said. BHP Billiton said on June 9 month that it had decided not to go ahead with the Haju...
In the latest installment of the on-going saga, Ivanhoe has received yet another set-back from the Mongolian government in its effort to push through the Oyu Tolgoi project. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9372.
British mining giant Vedanta said on Tuesday it is going ahead with plans to mine a bauxite-rich hillside in Orissa considered sacred land by local tribals, and urged two international NGOs to give up their protest campaign. See...
Protesters lined up outside the annual meeting of British mining company Vedanta Resources on Monday to put pressure on its shareholders over plans to mine bauxite on a tribal community’s sacred land in India. As well as listening to the chants of the...
The Global Campaign Against Vedanta has issued the following press release. See below for message of support from Arundhati Roy, further reports, and press releases from ActionAid and Survival International. PRESS RELEASE GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST VEDANTA RESOURCES...
