Published by MAC on 2021-06-07Source: The Guardian (2021-06-05) Is there anything left that Rio Tinto can do? Ben Wyatt, a…
Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada
NEWS RELEASE 31 May 2021, 6.36pm EDT (Ottawa) Today, the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) released draft model legislation that provides…
Cominak uranium mine closes in Niger
Published by MAC on 2021-05-31Source: Afrik21 (2021-05-30) The risk of radioactive pollution in one of Africa’s largest uranium mines. Akouta…
South Africa: RBM mining executive gunned down in KwaZulu-Natal
Published by MAC on 2021-05-30Source: ECR, TimesLIVE (2021-05-30) Richards Bay Minerals has confirmed its general manager of operations has been…
Ethiopia: Three Chinese Mine Workers Freed After Kidnapping in Ethiopia
30 MAY 2021 The Nation (Nairobi) By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Three Chinese nationals who had been kidnapped by an armed group…
Villagers protest against mining company
28 MAY, 2021 – 00:05 George Maponga–Masvingo Bureau Scores of placard-waving villagers in Sese have staged a demonstration demanding an…
Kenya: Large scale gold mining to start in Kakamega in 2022
Artisanal miners prospect for gold in Rosterman in Kakamega County. Mining firm Shanta Gold has announced the presence of visible…
Kenya: Shanta finds more gold deposits in Kakamega
FRIDAY MAY 28 2021 By DERICK LUVEGA and By BENSON AMADALA Large-scale gold mining in Western Kenya could start next…
The impacts of illegal mining for women in Brazil
Published by MAC on 2021-05-27Source: Brasil de Fato, Pressenza (2021-05-21) Indigenous peoples in distress due to illegality and mercury contamination.…
Avoiding a “Green Shift” Towards Tax Havens
27 May 2021, 5.48pm EDT Ugo Lapointe By Alain Deneault and Ugo Lapointe (Respectively, professor, author of “Canada: A New Tax Haven”…
