Britain’s metallic e-wastes may end up poisoning children in Ghana, Nigeria, and other African countries, according to a British media investigation. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9095
Stand alongside the Kondh The pristine Niyamgiri hills in Orissa, India, are the ancestral home of thousands of tribal people. The Kondh tribe lead a self-sufficient life nurturing the forest-covered region and relying on it for their food, drink and medicines. They...
It may not represent complete victory, but the unanimous decision by more than 140 states to voluntarily “control” mercury emissions to the environment is a welcome and major step to ridding the planet of one of its most toxic substances. Since coal-fired...
Daily Telegraph, 20-02-2009 Anglo American, the world’s biggest platinum producer, plans to cut 19,000 jobs by the end of the year as the boom in commodities comes crashing down. The company, which owns a 45pc stake in Diamond producer De Beers and employs about...
Australian Workers’ Union claims Rio Tinto is ‘blackmailing’ Kevin Rudd on Chinalco Matthew Franklin and Nicola Berkovic | February 19, 2009 Article from: The Australian THE Australian Workers Union has attacked mining giant Rio Tinto as a...
The Yanyuwa have lived around the McArthur River in Australia’s Northern Territory for millennia and were able to legally claim the land in 1977 under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, which allows indigenous people to establish ownership of land based on...
The U.S. government’s major financing agencies for overseas development projects have committed to scrutinizing fossil-fuel facilities for their effect on global warming and pledging to help build renewable energy plants abroad. The decision was revealed in...
Angola: Lonrho secures rice land deal; farmers will be removed GCM’s Lenigas in the frame Comment by Roger Moody, Nostromo Research The name David Lenigas may become increasingly familiar with civil society groups in sub-Saharan Africa, although it isn’t widely...
Protesters at a winter road blockade to the DeBeers Victor Mine near Attawapiskat First Nation in Canada have issued a list of demands they wish to discuss with DeBeers management. The roadblock went up Feb. 6 to protest the Impact Benefit Agreement (IBA) signed...
Journalist Julio César Vásquez Calle is pursuing a complaint to the Piura region prosecutor’s office against police officers and mining company security guards he claims tortured him while he was reporting on a protest in March 2005. On 5 February he received a...
11 February 2009 Survival International’s campaign targeting Graff Diamonds over its involvement in a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana has stepped up a gear. Thirty protestors gathered yesterday outside Graff’s flagship...
Peru: National Coordinator for Human Rights says new photographs confirm torture of peasants who protested against Majaz Mining (now Río Blanco Copper), owned by London-registered Monterrico Metals plc See also...
