Two months ago, at the end of March 2009, a judgment was delivered in Delhi’s High Court against some leading directors of UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc. The case received very little publicity even within India, let alone in Britain. But it cut to the heart...
Mongolia’s Democratic Party leader, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, won against the country’s ruling Peoples Revolutionary Party in May’s national elections. It was touch and go right up to the wire. What does this mean for the opening of Mongolia’s...
Jubilee South Africa National Office Press Statement 28 May 2009 RE-EXHUMED GRAVES REVEAL SOME FAMILY REMAINS WERE NOT REBURIED: Original Removal of Graves Took Place in 2008 to Make Way for a Tailings Dam at ANGLO PLATINUM’s PPL MINE SEKURUWE VILLAGE, NORTH OF...
Chief Sabino Romero is in two minds about Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution. As the leader of a small native Indian community in the remote and lawless mountains on Venezuela’s northwestern border with Colombia, Mr Romero heartily approves of the...