Due to the efforts that counted with MAB’s participation, the Minas Gerais Public Prosecutor’s Office withdrew Vale from the process of registering and collecting data about people affected by the failed dam. In the crime of the Fundão’s…
The Secretariat, Steering Committee and stakeholders of the Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) would like to offer their deepest condolences to the families of the Brazilians who lost their lives after the collapse of a tailings dam holding back…
It is with broken hearts that we, the participants of the recently held Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractive Economy, watch one of the worst mining disasters ever to occur unfolding in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais Brazil. Although the…
The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity expresses its deep concern about the institutional situation of the already fragile democracy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The act of recognition of the self-proclaimed interim…
Corporations have their own global private court system – called ISDS – which they use to bully governments. But many victims of corporate human rights abuses don’t have any way of winning justice. This is unfair. We need to…
Once again history repeats itself as a tragedy. On one side, Vale SA, a major worldwide mining company, and on the other, the Brazilian people gathering bodies sunken in the mud of criminal enterprises. This January 25 will be…
26 January 2019 Once again history repeats itself as a tragedy. On one side, Vale SA, a major worldwide mining company, and on the other, the Brazilian people gathering bodies sunken in the mud of criminal enterprises. …
We have received the news of another tragedy instigated by Vale mining company with profound indignation. This afternoon (January 25, 2019) two tailings dams located in the Corrego de Feijao community, in Brumadinho, metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte [state…
Davos, Switzerland | Embargoed Until 23.01.2019 | Stop ISDS Coalition Campaigners dressed as corporate wolves will invade the streets of Davos, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF), to protest the rights of corporations to…
Public conference Tuesday 29th January 2019, 7 pm – 9 pm CNCD 11.11.11. (Quai du Commerce 9, Brussels) Speakers: Pablo Fajardo, UDAPT – Union of those Affected by the oil operations of Texaco (now Chevron)…
The latest hearing in the case of the Zambian communities consistently polluted by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a subsidiary of British miner Vedanta, was heard at the British Supreme Court on 15th and 16th January 2019. A vigil organised by solidarity organisation…
By OPSur, Neuquen, Argentina.- German photojournalist Stefan Borghardt was detained and beaten and had his equipment confiscated by police because of taking photographs of the Treater oil waste treatment plant in the town of Añelo. Borghardt was reporting on…