LMN member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign has submitted a report to the inquiry of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights into business and human rights. The report concerns the alleged human rights impacts of a joint venture in Colombia between Rio...
Companies investing in controversial far-flung projects may soon be able to secure UK government guarantees without the stringent human rights and environmental safeguards in place at the moment…The move, in a new Bill, will reignite the controversy surrounding...
A Bill being debated in the Canadian House of Commons calls for greater corporate accountability for the activities of Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating in developing countries. Bill C-300 deals with issues with which Amnesty International’s...
Recently, a damages case levelled against lead mining giant Xstrata by seven year old plaintiff, year old, Stella Hare, was knocked back by an Australian court. The court ruled that allegations that Stella’s brain and nervous system impairments were caused by...
After allowing 13 mining companies to open-pit mine in protected forests, Indonesia’s government is now planning to permit underground mining in similar areas – arguing that this will help protect the environment. Among companies that could benefit is...
The Zambian government has announced it will take up equity in the country’s copper miners. Coming shortly after the government abolished a windfall tax – following pressure applied by privately-owned mining companies- the announcement has puzzled and...
Starting with an informative review of the theoretical literature on mining taxation and winding up with a series of observations about the design of minerals tax regimes, the report is a laudably even-handed treatment of the major debates in the field…While the...
Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the ‘protect, respect and remedy’ framework, the report by John Ruggie, UN Special Representative on business & human rights, to the 11th session of UN Human Rights Council, has just been released:...
The Global Reporting Initiative has taken another step towards a new set of social and environmental reporting guidelines for mining companies. The mining and metals sector supplement, whose public consultation closed on 29 April, contains 13 sustainability...
While the World Bank keeps multiplying dirty investments in fossil-fuel generating projects, like coal in poor countries, the Bank has become the custodian of rich-country supported Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) created to help poor countries mitigate and adapt to...
A delegation of native leaders and commercial salmon fishermen from Bristol Bay, Alaska, travelled to London to attend the Anglo American annual general meeting (AGM) on 15 April. The company owns roughly 70% of the highly controversial Pebble Mine Project. The mine,...
Lutheran pastor, Jon Magnuson, from Marquette, Michigan, USA, presented the Rio Tinto board with a document signed by one hundred faith leaders of ten faith traditions in Marquette, Baraga and Keweenaw counties. Magnuson said that the document was part of a petition...
