by Richard | May 5, 2018 | News
By Andy Whitmore, London Mining Network Glencore held its Annual General Meeting in the Theater-Casino in the sleepy Swiss lake-side town of Zug on 2 May. I have been to many major mining company AGMs over the years in London, but this was my first foray to a Swiss...
by Richard | Jan 12, 2017 | News
Our friends at RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) recently published a report called ‘Bribery in its purest form’: Och-Ziff, asset laundering and the London connection. A recent article in the Guardian pointed out that wealthy countries like the UK gain...
by Saul | Apr 6, 2016 | News, Press Releases
The Stop Mad Mining coalition has handed over your 41,675 signatures that call on the EU to tackle the deadly trade in conflict minerals (see: https://londonminingnetwork.org/conflict-minerals-petition/). The hand-over took place in Brussels, first to Roland Roosdrop...
by Saul | Apr 5, 2016 | News
The following is an opinion piece, written by Abbot Léonard Santedi, the Secretary General of the Bishops Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo, commenting on the current state of negotiations with in the European Union about conflict minerals. CIDSE, the...
by Saul | Dec 10, 2015 | News
This Human Rights Day, don’t let your holiday spending fuel violence abroad. Sign the petition to help tackle the trade in conflict minerals. Hundreds of thousands buy smart phones for Christmas presents in Europe. But how many of them know that the gold and...
