Full report available at http://www.corporate-responsibility.org The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and The Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition Media Briefing The Reality of Rights A new report reveals the reality for victims of human...
The past nine months of unprecedented upheavals in the world of global mining finance has caused a revision to our notions of which companies wield the most “money power” over the industry as a whole. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9202
Last Saturday, the British-listed mining company, Vedanta Resources, faced overwhelming local opposition for their plans to expand their refinery in Orissa, India. The sacred Niyamgiri Hills in India are the home to and source of livelihood for the Kondh tribal...
LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign has submitted a report to the inquiry of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights into business and human rights. The report concerns the alleged human rights impacts of a joint venture in Colombia between Rio...
Companies investing in controversial far-flung projects may soon be able to secure UK government guarantees without the stringent human rights and environmental safeguards in place at the moment…The move, in a new Bill, will reignite the controversy surrounding...
A Bill being debated in the Canadian House of Commons calls for greater corporate accountability for the activities of Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating in developing countries. Bill C-300 deals with issues with which Amnesty International’s...
