Unmasking BHP: Human rights defenders meet with investors
On 22 October, four frontline defenders in the UK for Unmasking BHP week met with BHP investors in Westminster, London. This was minutes walk away from where BHP held its annual general meeting (AGM) on 17 October. In a first for LMN and Local Authority Pension Fund...
PRESS RELEASE: Frontline defenders expose BHP’s role in climate breakdown
15/10/19 – For immediate release Frontline human rights defenders travel from Latin America to the UK to share their experiences of climate breakdown, the threat of violence and the greenwashing tactics of multinational mining company BHP Human rights and...
VIDEO: Unmasking BHP
Unmasking BHP is between 12-24 October. Four frontline defenders are travelling from Latin America to the UK to challenge the world’s largest mining corporation, BHP, about its deadly extractive operations which harm people and planet. Join us.
VIDEO: Stop UK company’s expansion of mine into Bruno river!
Ahead of our Unmasking BHP week of action between 14-22 October, Leobardo Sierra speaks about the impact of a British multinational mining company’s diversion of the river upon which he and his community depends. The community leader of El Rocio village, La... Unmasking BHP: introducing the defenders…
Four environmental human rights defenders are travelling from Latin America to the UK for Unmasking BHP – a week of arts, protest and discussion to mobilize around the London-listed mining company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Between 14-22 October we will challenge...
Unmasking BHP week: protest mega-mining and climate breakdown
Four environmental human rights defenders are travelling from Latin America to the UK for Unmasking BHP – a week of arts, protest and discussion to mobilize around the London-listed mining company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Join us between 14-22 October as...
New report on climate justice and post-extractivism
Dear friends, Today we publish, together with member group War on Want, our brand new report about the way the mining industry is greenwashing itself by appealing to the transition to a low carbon economy. The report points out the damage done by the mining of metals... New report exposes mining industry’s greenwashing
War on Want and London Mining Network launch joint report exposing greenwashing of mining industry, ahead of Global Climate Strike Monday 16 September will see the launch of ‘A Just Transition is a Post-extractive Transition’, a joint report by climate justice...
Chile: Community of Caimanes announces legal action against Antofagasta Minerals for environmental damages
The community of Caimanes is taking fresh legal action against Minera Los Pelambres, a mining company controlled by Antofagasta Minerals (the Chilean subsidiary of London-listed Antofagasta plc) over the situation of the Mauro tailings (fine wastes) dam above the...
Peru: residents block roads in protest against Anglo American
In Moquegua (southern Peru), hundreds of citizens including campesinas and campesinos protesting against the Quellaveco copper mining project, run by the British Anglo American company, blocked the most important roads in the region, which has caused dozens of...