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Past the Tipping Point? Contract Disclosure within EITI

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When governments and private sector companies agree to exploit publicly owned natural resources, citizens have the right to know the terms of the resulting deals. These terms are contained in licenses, contracts, regulations and legislation. While regulations and legislation are usually public, licenses and contracts often are not. Four years after the Extractive Industries Transparency …

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Transnational Crime and the Developing World

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This March 2017 report from Global Financial Integrity, “Transnational Crime and the Developing World,” finds that globally the business of transnational crime is valued at an average of $1.6 trillion to $2.2 trillion annually. The study evaluates the overall size of criminal markets in 11 categories: the trafficking of drugs, arms, humans, human organs, and cultural property; …

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Tall tales and tailings – the truth about Rio Tinto

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Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar was meant to be an exemplar of ‘corporate social responsibility’ and environmental best practice. But the reality experienced by local communities is different, writes Yvonne Orengo, with uncompensated land seizures, food insecurity, deforestation and social deprivation. New concerns are emerging about the infringement of legal buffer zones and radiation …

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Brazilians challenge Anglo American

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Brazilians to challenge Anglo American push to expand tailings dam seven-times larger than deadly Samarco dam, next to the Doce River basin impacted by November 2015 disaster A villager from a community living next to Anglo American’s Minas-Rio iron ore tailings dam in Brazil, has come to London to challenge the company at their AGM …

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Controversial gas from Peruvian Amazon arrives in UK

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The Camisea project is taking place in rainforest 60 miles from Machu Picchu in Peru A tanker docking in the UK is transporting a controversial cargo of gas from the Peruvian Amazon. It is thought to be the first shipment to the UK from the Camisea project in the rainforest 60 miles from Machu Picchu. …

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World Bank tribunal dismisses mining firm’s $250m claim against El Salvador

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OceanaGold ordered to pay $8m legal costs after claim that El Salvador’s refusal to let it mine gold caused huge loss in potential profits is thrown out. In March of last year, demonstrators in Washington DC protested against the World Bank’s tardy response to resolving the lawsuit against El Salvador. (Photograph: Saul Loeb) An international …

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Gold-mining in Peru: forests razed, millions lost, virgins auctioned

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Reports of mining in the River Santiago basin raise concerns given the devastating social and environmental impacts elsewhere. The Madre de Dios region in Peru’s south-east Amazon where international demand for gold has led to huge areas of the forest being cleared and appalling social impacts. Photograph: Mario Tama Three people in a motorised canoe …

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The Trinidad and Tobago Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (TTEITI)

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For the past three years the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) International Board has advocated disclosure of the names of the beneficial owners of oil, gas and mining companies as a further step towards achieving transparency and accountability in the extractive industries. In February 2016, at the 7th EITI Global Conference in Lima, Peru, attended …

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BHP Billiton employees face criminal charges on Brazil dam disaster

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BHP Billiton employees face criminal charges on Brazil dam disaster Mining company denies prosecutor claims that executives knew the Samarco dam could fail but allegedly prioritised profits over safety An aerial view of the Doce river which was flooded with toxic waste after a dam burst. (Photograph: Fred Loureiro) Eight employees of BHP Billiton face …

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STRADE|Non-EU Country Engagements with Raw Materials Producing Countries

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In the second policy brief (No. 02/2016, by SNL) of our European Union (EU) funded research project STRADE (Strategic Dialogue for Sustainable Raw Materials for Europe) the consortium have traced the external raw materials based engagements undertaken by five major industrialized countries (China, Japan, Australia, Canada and the USA). All conduct some form of natural …

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