A group of leading UK charities has launched a manifesto setting out recommendations to improve sustainability and corporate accountability practices. The CORE Coalition, whose members include ActionAid, Amnesty International, CAFOD, Friends of the Earth, Traidcraft and WWF, is calling on the UK’s political parties to commit to make companies more accountable on corporate tax avoidance, human rights abuses within their supply chains and access to justice for victims of corporate abuse.
Finally, it is Lonmin’s turn to be publicly scrutinised at the Marikana Commission of Inquiry, writes GREG MARINOVICH. And it’s not a pretty spectacle.
Good old-fashioned image cleansing versus environmental and human rights excesses. Stephanie Boyd exposes the self-serving manoeuvring of a rapacious cartel.
The world’s food production and millions of small farmers and communities are under increasing threat from the rapid expansion of mining, says a new report released today.
