An Ecumenical Delegation that visited Alberta in Canada to learn more about the tar sands’ impacts on people and the earth has issued a concluding statement that tar sands pose complex questions requiring public discussion, independent studies on their cumulative...
EIRIS (Experts In Responsibile Investment Solutions) and Survival International are supporting a UN Principles for Responsible Investment programme to facilitate engagement between investors and companies to promote and respect the rights of the world’s 370 million...
Last month, the unique African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES) held its eleventh annual meeting in Nairobi. It has long been a savage paradox that the world’s richest mineral-endowed continent is also home to its most impoverished peoples....
15 July 2009 Survival International lodged two urgent appeals today to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India. Survival has called on both the UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee to stop Vedanta Resources’ mine in the Niyamgiri Hills, Orissa. The mine...
In June 2009, the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) met to finally consider an application, first made in 2007 by UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc, for a major expansion of its company’s bauxite mines at...
9 July 2009 The Indian government should immediately withdraw the clearance granted to a massive mining project that threatens the lives and livelihoods of a protected indigenous community living there, Amnesty International said today. In April 2009, Indian...
