Author Archives: Zainab
Here comes the end to a very special year for RAID, one in which we marked our 25th anniversary. From humble beginnings at Kellogg College in Oxford in 1998, we have grown into an innovative and gutsy NGO standing beside local communities to take on corporate wrongdoing. But don’t just take our word for it!
A South African court has stopped a historic class action of 140,000 women and children from proceeding after the Zambian community came forward to seek redress for decades of lead contamination. “This decision compounds a historic wrong, not yet remedied. Thousands of children suffering from lead poisoning will continue to have life-limiting futures. Families
Statement by UK corporate watchdog RAID On 24 August, the UK’s top anti-corruption agency, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), announced it had decided to drop its ten-year investigation into Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) due to “insufficient admissible evidence to prosecute”. ENRC had been under investigation for corruption and bribery centred on suspected bribes for cobalt and
On 25 July 2023, Barrick published its Annual Sustainability Update, which included a PowerPoint and video presentation by Barrick’s management. The presentation included several inaccuracies regarding RAID’s research and reporting on the human rights situation at Barrick’s North Mara gold mine in Tanzania. The company’s continued attacks on RAID are an unfortunate distraction from the
A group of 146 civil society organisations today express their serious concern about the legal proceedings filed in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Israeli businessman Dan Gertler against Congo’s leading anti-corruption coalition, Le Congo n’est pas à Vendre (Congo is Not for Sale or CNPAV). The criminal lawsuit (citation directe) filed in early March targets CNPAV spokesperson Jean-Claude Mputu
Photo: Jean-Claude Mputu Un groupe de 146 organisations de la société civile expriment leur vive préoccupation au sujet de l’action judiciaire engagée en République démocratique du Congo par l’homme d’affaires israélien Dan Gertler contre la principale coalition anti-corruption en RD Congo, Le Congo n’est pas à vendre (CNPAV). La procédure pénale (citation directe) engagée au début du mois de
New living wage calculation shows mine workers labouring for the energy transition are being left behind Pour une version en français, cliquez ici. “Around the world, companies engaged in the energy transition seem to be making record profits, while the Congolese workers who are bringing cobalt to global markets are falling further into poverty. The switch
Un calcul actualisé du salaire de subsistance révèle que les travailleurs des mines qui contribuent à la transition énergétique sont laissés pour compte « Partout dans le monde, les entreprises engagées dans la transition énergétique semblent réaliser des bénéfices records, tandis que les travailleurs congolais qui mettent le cobalt à la disposition des marchés mondiaux s’enfoncent
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