Community Resistance to Multinational Mining in the Philippines
Indigenous groups in the Philippines are facing increasing pressure under the Duterte government. They are losing their land, livelihood, and resources to extractive industries, illegal logging, and monocrop plantations among others. The community of Didipio, Nueva...
Crowdfunder: Support the Communities of La Guajira!
The Cerrejon open-cast Coal Mine, located in the south of the province of La Guajira, Colombia, is currently owned in equal shares by three multinational mining companies: Anglo American, BHP and Glencore, all of them listed in the London Stock Exchange. Since the...
VIDEO – Unmasking BHP: challenging the world’s largest mining company
Last month four human rights defenders from Latin America travelled to London to speak truth to power at the British-Australian mining giant’s annual shareholders’ meeting, as part of a week of action, Unmasking BHP. The company announced at its meeting...
Open letter to BHP on anniversary of Samarco dam collapse
At 1.15pm today, representatives from London Mining Network, War on Want and Global Justice Now tried to hand in a letter at BHP’s London office, addressed to the company’s chair Ken MacKenzie, on the fourth anniversary of Brazil’s Samarco tailings...