Tanzanian and international human rights groups today urged Tanzanian president John Magufuli to address human rights issues at Acacia’s North Mara Gold Mine as part of the framework agreement with Barrick Gold Corporation, announced last week. The seven rights groups detailed their request in an open letter sent to the president.
The policy provides a distinctively Christian approach to investment in the extractives industries and is the culmination of theological reflection, expert input, public consultation and site visits to mine sites and communities over a 24-month period. It states that key ethical concerns in the extractive industries are not to be found in extraction in itself, but in business conduct including management of risk, the effects of operation on communities and national economies, and operating standards.
The digitalisation of production and the ‘Internet of Things’, referred to as Industry 4.0 in Europe, are being sold with the promise of ‘clean’ economic growth and resource efficiency in a time of converging eco-social crises.
Powershift E.V., together with the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation, The Gaia Foundation, and Yes to Life No to Mining, have just published a new fact sheet called The Dark Side of Digitalization: Will Industry 4.0 Create New Raw Materials Demands?
The Democratic Republic of Congo is among the world’s richest countries in terms of natural resources, but its people remain among the world’s poorest. The DRC’s mining sector has attracted billions of dollars in private investment, but people are not seeing this wealth.
Petrochemicals firm Ineos has obtained a sweeping injunction in the UK against anti-fracking demonstrators. Activists face a fine, prison sentence or having their assets seized if they break the injunction.
Two campaigners are seeking to have the injunction struck out at a three-day court hearing, arguing that it is “anti-democratic and oppressive”.
