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...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...