The United States and the EU have warned they would not cooperate with an intergovernmental working group (IGWG) which is to be established to lay down ground rules for negotiating a proposed treaty to prevent human rights abuses by transnational corporations.
A new report from LMN member group the Gaia Foundation calls for No Go Areas for Mining and Extractive Activities as threats to water, food sovereignty, and sacred natural sites and territories increase across Africa.
DEASE LAKE, BC, June 26, 2014 /CNW/ – The Tahltan Central Council has today (June 26, 2014) announced its intention to prepare an Aboriginal title and rights claim against the Province of British Columbia and Fortune Minerals Ltd for the controversial Arctos Anthracite Coal project proposed for Mt. Klappan in the Klappan area of Tahltan territory.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has adopted, through a vote, a historic and significant resolution to start a process for an international legally instrument on transnational corporations.
The chairman and senior independent director at Asia Resource Minerals have been voted off the board, amid a resumption of civil war at the coal miner formerly known as Bumi.
