Violence against Indigenous residents intensifies with rising numbers of killings, assaults and torture by police assigned to the North Mara mine, bringing the death toll to at least 77 and 304 wounded.
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In May 2022, Glencore, a multinational company at the heart of global commodity markets and the energy transition, admitted to widespread and systematic corruption in countries across the globe. Glencore pleaded guilty to U.S., U.K. and Brazilian corruption charges and is expected to pay approximately $1.5 billion in penalties.
The European Union’s proposed batteries regulation should require importers and manufacturers to source the bauxite, copper and iron used in batteries responsibly, a coalition of 16 organisations said today. The coalition includes RAID as well as Amnesty International, Earthworks, Finnwatch, Germanwatch, Human Rights Watch, Inclusive Development International, INKOTA, PowerShift, SOMO and Transport & Environment, as well as human rights and environmental activists from producer countries.
Ahead of Barrick Gold’s Annual General Meeting on 3 May, corporate watchdog RAID is urging the company’s investors to take action on alarming human rights abuses by Tanzanian police assigned to the company’s North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania.
At least four people have been killed and seven more seriously injured by police engaged to provide security at Tanzania’s North Mara Gold Mine since Barrick Gold assumed control of the mine in September 2019, UK corporate watchdog RAID said today. The alarming human rights abuses shatter the Canadian mining giant’s claim that it has “radically repaired” community relations at the mine, after taking back operational control from its UK subsidiary, Acacia Mining.
The legal victory is one of the first instances a Congolese worker at an industrial mine site has successfully sued an employer for injuries sustained at work. It sets an important new precedent for workers’ rights.
You can buy a gold coin embellished with a lotus flower to symbolise purity and spiritual enlightenment from the retail outlet of a trusted refinery. It might give you confidence that the gold was responsibly sourced.
New research released today reveals dire conditions, discrimination and extremely low pay at some of the world’s largest industrial cobalt mines operated by multinational mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt is considered an essential mineral in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EV). Over 70% of the world’s cobalt is extracted in Congo.
The undersigned organisations express their serious concern at the legal proceedings that have been filed in a UK court against journalist and author Tom Burgis, his publisher HarperCollins, and his employer the Financial Times (FT). Two lawsuits have been filed by Kazakh multinational mining company, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), for what it claims are a series of “untrue” and “highly damaging” allegations made by the defendants about the company.
President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) should urgently rectify the human rights failures of the previous government and implement the decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights regarding the victims of serious human rights violations in Kilwa, south-eastern DRC, three international and Congolese human rights groups who initiated the complaint said today.