New RAID report – Och-Ziff, Mugabe's "Bagmen" and the underpricing of African assets
In its new report Och-Ziff, Mugabe’s “Bagmen” and the underpricing of African assets, RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) calls on the US authorities to investigate a number of questionable transactions in Africa by Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC...Rio Tinto: Voices of Resistance
Perle Zafinandro from Madagascar The week before the recent Rio Tinto AGM, London Mining Network organised an event at Amnesty International UK’s Human Rights Action Centre so that people could hear from representatives of communities and workers directly...
Anglo American presented with Golden Snail Award at its 2014 AGM
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network This year’s Anglo American AGM – always very genteel affairs – was a little more exciting than usual. Mark Beacon of LMN member group ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa) presented Anglo American’s...
African Barrick Gold AGM: investors must question abuses at North Mara Mine, Tanzania
Press release from CORE, London Mining Network and RAID, 23 April 2014 Investors in African Barrick Gold (ABG) must use tomorrow’s AGM to ask questions of the company’s leadership regarding alleged human rights abuses at the North Mara Mine, Tanzania. ABG pays the...
Video highlights plight of South African miners as Anglo American AGM starts in London
Leigh Day and Co Press Release, 23 April 2014 Lawyers for over 4000 ex-miners are marking this year’s Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of mining giant Anglo American plc with the launch of an online video highlighting the plight of miners suffering from the respiratory...
Rio Tinto: The shareholder value of austerity
By Andy Whitmore, Co-chair, London Mining Network A funny thing happened on the way to boredom. I was sitting, as so often, in a company shareholder annual general meeting; this particular edition being Rio Tinto’s 2014 AGM. We were in the first section of the...
Rio Tinto AGM 2014: thanks, and no thanks
Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Thanks from Alaska This year’s Rio Tinto AGM was extraordinary for one particular reason: Indigenous representatives had travelled all the way from Alaska to THANK the company – for pulling out of a project that... Rio Tinto London AGM 2014 in the news
Yesterday’s Rio Tinto AGM was widely covered in the press and social media. John Vidal wrote in the Guardian about recently published reports about the impacts of Rio Tinto’s uranium mining in Namibia. These reports were also featured in Independent...Recently-jailed Madagascan mother to confront Rio Tinto Board at London AGM
Come join a demonstration outside from 9.30am on Tuesday outside the Rio Tinto AGM at the QE II Conference Centre, SW1. A mother-of-four who was recently jailed for 58 days for confronting mining injustice against her community in Madagascar has travelled to London to...FOI request reveals UK government backed Shell and Rio Tinto in human rights court cases after companies lobbied for support
CORE/Amnesty International UK press release, 6 April 2014 ‘While paying lip service to corporate responsibility, the government was conniving with multinationals to reduce their exposure to litigation for the worst kind of abuses.’ – Marilyn Croser The oil giant Shell...