Bougainville communities secure commitment from Rio Tinto to assess environmental and human rights impacts of former mine
Press release from Human Rights Law Centre, Australia, 21 July 2021 Rio Tinto has today publicly committed to fund an an independent environmental and human rights impact assessment of its former Panguna mine in Bougainville in response to a human rights complaint...
Evasion and hypocrisy: the 2021 Rio Tinto plc AGM
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Andrew Hickman, Andy Whitmore, Dina Rui, Roger Featherstone, Roger Moody, Sukhgerel Dugersuren, Yvonne Orengo and Zoe Lujic. Rio Tinto’s London AGM on 9 April 2021 was the first...
Remembrance, resistance and legal proceedings
Dear friends, Monday 25 January was the second anniversary of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho in Brazil. Vale is a Brazilian mining company with significant UK investment. We worked with our friends in Brazil to mark...