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  Mining industry: General materials 1991-2000  

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2000:

U.S. Backs Tribe, Rejects Gold Mine Proposal (Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2000)

On the Ground Research: A Research Agenda for Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining Activity -- Submitted to the International Development Research Centre (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 6 Nov. 2000) 

Whose Globe? The plight of local people gets a voice in corporate boardrooms (Paul Raeburn and Sheridan Prasso, Business Week, 6 Nov. 2000)

Philippine Indigenous Tribe Urges Calgary Mining Company to Respect Their Land Rights: Subanen Representatives Tour Canada (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 4 Nov. 2000)

Rio Tinto: blockades and strikes hit Kalimantan mines [Indonesia] - The past months have seen unprecedented direct action by local people and mine workers protesting against injustice at Rio Tinto's PT KEM and Kaltim Prima mines. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

WALHI opposes PT CPM [Indonesia]: The Central Sulawesi chapter of environmental organisation WALHI has been making the case against gold-mining by PT Citra Palu Minerals in the Poboya-Paneki area of East Palu sub-district, Central Sulawesi...The area is a Taman Raya Hutan - a forest park - designed for conservation and watershed protection. Open-pit mining is illegal in protected forests...The group has also expressed dismay at Rio Tinto, who they say are carrying out survey work in Morowali nature reserve. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Newmont under siege: Newmont, the US-based mining company, has again come under fire at both its operations in Indonesia. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Indigenous miners evicted [Indonesia]: There has been further conflict at indigenous mining lands inside the PT Indo Muro Kencana gold concession operated by Australia's Aurora Gold in Central Kalimantan. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Mining in 'protected' forests [Indonesia]: Mining companies are lobbying to change legislation which prohibits open-pit mining in areas designated as protected forests...NGOs fear that the government will cave in to industry and economic pressures and give the go-ahead for open-pit mining to resume in protected forests. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Resource exploitation continues as tension mounts: Indonesian and foreign companies continue to profit from West Papua's resources as the military resumes its tough line with the independence movement. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Freeport: still getting away with it - A series of official investigations into Freeport Indonesia, operators of the huge Grasberg gold and copper mine in West Papua, has done nothing as yet to curb the excessive environmental damage caused by the company. It is business as usual at the US-British-owned mine, despite persistent questions over the company's contract, its environmental and human rights record and allegations of corrupt share allocations. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Kenyans tour to raise awareness of Tiomin's strip-mining plans for titanium (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, Newsletter, No. 4, autumn 2000)

Canadian Mining Companies Profit from Burma's Misery (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 18 Sep. 2000)

On The Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining ­ April 14-16 2000, Ottawa, Canada - Workshop Report (MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Consortium for International Social Development, Sep. 2000)

Canadian Resources Company Creating Conflict in Eastern Kenya [includes a response from Tiomin Resources Inc.] (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 18 Aug. 2000)

Australian Mining Companies: Inquiry needed into the impact of their overseas operations (Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia], July 2000)

Mining Industry in India and Dynamics of Peoples' Resistances (J. John, Labour File, June-July 2000)

Mining in India: Movements, Multinationals and Malaise [provides examples of mining projects, and local resistance to those projects, including resistance by tribal peoples] (Suman Ray, Labour File, June-July 2000)

Communities Come together to Demand Rights [India]: Over two hundred activists representing people's movements, trade unions, and NGO's working among people affected by mining operations met at the First National Convention in Tukkuguda near Hyderabad on 28 May 2000 - Communities are kept in the dark before mining begins. People are not aware of its implications to their health, water resources and the environment. (Labour File, June-July 2000) 

Written Presentation [regarding mining issues in Central Asia] to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade [Canada] (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte Canada, 4 May 2000)

Contracts and communities: Opposition is mounting to large-scale mining in Indonesia as communities speak out about its effects on their lives and the environment, but foreign companies are warning the Wahid government not to change the contracts they signed during the Suharto regime. [refers to mining companies including Newmont, Inco, Freeport, Rio Tinto] (Down to Earth Newsletter, May 2000)

Philippines a Litmus Test for Placer's Environmental Policy (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 20 Apr. 2000)

Uranium Miners, Families Bring Tales of Pain to Washington (Associated Press, Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2000)

Indonesian Forum to Campaign for Environment Audit on Freeport (Antara/Asia Pulse, 11 Apr. 2000)

200 groups call on World Bank to phase out destructive oil, mining and gas projects (Friends of the Earth, 10 Apr. 2000) 

At the Intersection of Business and Human Rights (Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2000)

Nevada's Mines Emit High Levels of Mercury into Air, Figures Show (Faith Bremner, Reno Gazette-Journal, 2 Mar. 2000)

Undermining the forests: The need to control transnational mining companies - A Canadian case study - Undermining the Forests, a new report published by the Forest Peoples Programme, the World Rainforest Movement and Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links, documents cases from around the world of the disastrous impact that Canadian mining enterprises are having upon the world's forests and forest peoples. Undermining the Forests details cases from around the world that clearly indicate not only the appalling unresolved legacy of past bad practice but the continuation of serious human rights violations, impoverishment and massive and irreparable environmental damage. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Feb. 2000)

Towards a Spiral of Violence? The Dangers of Privatisation of Risk Management of Investments in Africa: Mining Activities and the Use of Private Security Companies; Appendix A: Principales Zones de Gisements [map from Le Monde Diplomatique]; Appendix B: Mining investment in areas of conflict: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo (written by S. Aoul, E. Revil, B. Sarrasin, B. Campbell, D. Tougas [Entraide missionnaire]; presented to the United Nations and Canadian Government by The Working Group on Human Rights in Congo/Kinshasa, Development and Peace, and MiningWatch Canada, Feb. 2000)

Global Mining Initiative: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development: Sir Robert Wilson's paper which reflects on the rationale behind the Global Mining Initiative and the processes involved in this undertaking (Global Mining Initiative, Report on the Governors Meeting for the Mining and Metals Industry, 31 Jan. - 1 Feb. 2000)

Inco in Indonesia: A Report for Canadian People (Arianto Sangaji, Palu, 7 Jan. 2000

Research: Exploring Indigenous Perspectives on Consultation and Engagement within the Mining Sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (North-South Institute, 1999-2000)

Investing in unstable regions (Nick Killick of International Alert, and Jordana Friedman, in Human Rights & Business Matters, newsletter of Amnesty International UK Business Group, autumn 1999/winter 2000)

1999:

Canadian Gold Mining Interests Involved in Police Shootings in Ghana, West Africa (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 22 Dec. 1999)

Impacts of WTO On The Environment, Cultures and Indigenous Peoples (Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Director of Tebtebba Foundation [Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education] and Convenor of Asia Indigenous Women's Network, 29 Nov. 1999)

relevant sections of Business and Human Rights in a Time of Change (Christopher Avery, Nov. 1999):

Dayaks reoccupy traditional mines in Aurora Gold concession [Indonesia]: After many years of peaceful process and unsuccessful negotiations, Dayaks communities in Central Kalimantan have moved back on to their traditional mining sites. This direct action was taken as a last resort to defend rights consistently denied by the Indonesian government and by the mining company which took over their lands. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 1999)

Coal blight in South Kalimantan [Indonesia]: In South Kalimantan province, coal mining - involving Australian companies - is continuing to disrupt the lives of local communities. In Hulu Sungai Utara district, the district head, Suhailin Muchtar said that both legal and illegal coal mining activities had damaged the environment. PT Adaro Indonesia's coal mine (part-owned by Australia's New Hope) operates in this district. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 1999)

Rio Tinto in Southeast Sulawesi - Rio Tinto's Indonesia record worsens (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 1999)

Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in Burma (Roger Moody / Canada Asia Pacific Resource Network, Sep. 1999)

Canny companies come clean: Firms are finding that it pays to tell the truth about their social and environmental impact (Terry Slavin, Observer [U.K.], 27 June 1999)

Native Americans denounce toxic legacy (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 14 June 1999)

Basic Human Rights and the Impact of Mining Companies (Jeff Atkinson, Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia], May 1999):

The right to self-rule: Indian tribals fight to control their land and resources (Oxfam/Community Aid Abroad [Australia], May 1999)

New Agency Head Supports Mining, Logging Brasil's Indigenous Lands (Environment News Service, 1 Mar. 1999)

Ecuador: oil exploitation banned in protected areas (World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, Mar. 1999)

The New Corporate Challenge: Globalization requires companies to do more than seek higher profits (Sir Geoffrey Chandler, Chair of Amnesty International UK Business Group, Time, 1 Feb. 1999)

The World's Indigenous Peoples (Russel Barsh, White Paper commissioned by Calvert Group Funds, 1999) 

1998:

The Evolution of Corporate Responsibility: From Unbridled Markets to Mature Capitalism (Roy Culpeper, President, North-South Institute, address to The Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy, Toronto, 2 Dec. 1998)

Mining, murder and mayhem: The impact of the mining industry in the South (Danny Kennedy, Director of Project Underground, Third World Network, May 1998)

Letter from Bill Jordan (General Secretary, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) to R.P. Wilson (Chairman, Rio Tinto) regarding Rio Tinto's Statement of Business Practice (14 Apr. 1998)

AUSTRALIA/PHILIPPINES: Activists Pressure Mining Firm via Shareholders (Sumegha Agarwal, Inter Press Service, 9 Jan. 1998)

Business Ethics and Human Rights (Damian Grace, Australian Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 1998)

1997:

Killings in West Papua [Indonesia] (Survival International, 2 Sep. 1997)

ENVIRONMENT - G-7: Indigenous Groups Lament Record After Rio (Doug Vaughan, Inter Press Service, 23 June 1997)

Scraping Bottom: Freeport McMoRan in Irian Jaya (NGO Taskforce on Business and Industry, 1997)

Running on Empty: Shell in Nigeria (NGO Taskforce on Business and Industry, 1997)

1991:

Richards Bay Minerals support for Human Rights (a 72-page Xhosa-language / English-language handbook published in 1991 by the Community Law Centre, designed to provide basic human rights knowledge to South Africans and to encourage discussion about human rights)