This investigation conducted in the mining region of Katanga impressively demonstrates how human rights are constantly violated and the social consequences of such violations. The most serious problems are the precarious situation of artisanal miners, the working conditions in the…
In 2007 the Bench Marks Foundation published Policy Gap 1, looking at the impacts on local communities from platinum mining in the North West province. The findings showed that despite the great value extracted from platinum mining, there are harmful…
On the one-year anniversary of the massacre of 34 striking workers at the Lonmin plc Marikana mine in South Africa, the members of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity express their ongoing solidarity with the Lonmin plc mineworkers, their families…
We denounce before the national and international public opinion especially to the North American and European consumers, to the Honduran subsidiary HANES CHOLOMA, HBI® and jointly to the TNC, HANESBRAND INC, the dismissal of 11 workers with occupational health problems as a result of…
Expanding palm oil empires in the name of ‘green energy’ and “sustainable development’ International environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin American Palm Oil Conference to be held by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Honduras…
Friends of the Earth groups from around the world are today calling on Shell to clean up its mess in the oil-rich and heavily polluted Niger Delta in Nigeria. The launch of an international petition targeting Shell comes exactly two…
A peaceful protest in Welivariya, Sri Lanka demanding clean water, ended with the killing of three people including a 17 year old school boy, Akila Dinesh (who was the only child in his family) and many others wounded. They were…
On July 25th and 26th 2013, the workshop “Alternatives to the International Investment Protection Regime and to the Dispute Resolution System between TNCs and States” was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The workshop was organized by Jubilee 2000 and Red Ecuador, and organized…
By Leah Temper. Are companies liable in their home countries for violations committed abroad? Are they liable anywhere? This has been the leading question in environmental justice law jurisprudence this year. The consensus so far has been mixed, with impunity…
(Photo taken from: Elpais.cr) The story of this mining exploration dates back to 1993 when the Canadian mining corporation Placer Dome obtained an exploration license from the Ministry of Environment and Energy. The Crucitas region where the project is located…
Death threats against community leader, his family and the union, hacking web sites, stealing computers and records of the hearings of Puerto Gaitan. During the early hours of today, Saturday 20 July, the house of the Brotherhood and Solidarity Network with Colombia (Redher)in Bogotá was attacked. Strangers came into the place and took away computers, sound recorders and cameras used in theorganization of the pre-hearing of the Ethical and Political Judgement of Pacific Rubiales; and of the delegation from Canada-the…