Resisting Rio Tinto: clean up your mess!
British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is gaining a reputation for not cleaning up its toxic mining mess – in Papua New Guinea, West Papua and Madagascar, to name a few. Most recently, the government of New Zealand threatened the company with legal action for...
Communities demanding redress from Rio Tinto
Representatives from Rio Tinto-affected communities or from supporting organisations from Bougainville, Madagascar and US were going to travel to the UK for a week of action around Rio Tinto’s annual general meeting (AGM). Obviously the global pandemic made this...
Bishop of Brumadinho: ‘mining companies have split communities’
In recent weeks, Dom Vicente Ferreira, Catholic Bishop of Brumadinho in Brazil, was in Europe speaking about the continuing impacts of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse there in January 2019, which killed 272 people. The iron ore mine at Brumadinho is owned and...
New death threats against Wayuu Women’s Force
New death threats have been issued against LMN’s friends in indigenous Colombian organisation Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu (Wayuu Women’s Force). Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu has been heavily involved in the struggle for justice in the face of the environmental...