Africa

There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds

Dec 06 2006

There are no clean diamonds. Exploring for them, digging them out of the ground and selling them requires sacrifices from the natural environment, from the wildlife and fish that live on it, and from the Aboriginal people who depend on it.

We want to ensure that the public understand that Canada’s Aboriginal communities are engaged in a daily power struggle to ensure that the mines benefit their people, and to ensure that these mines do not irreversibly damage the intricate web of life on which we all depend.

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Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally: background documents

Oct 20 2005

On October 20, 2005, MiningWatch Canada held a round table on "Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally" with industry, government, and civil society representatives, including invited guests from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine options for regulatory and/or legislative change and debate the opportunities and difficulties of moving these options forward within the current Canadian political context.

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African Initiative on Mining, Environment & Society (AIMES) Meets in Lusaka

Sep 07 2005
MiningWatch's Jamie Kneen attended the 6th meeting of the African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES) July 4-9 in Lusaka, Zambia. The conference was organized by Citizens for Better Environment (CBE) of Zambia in conjunction with Third World Network-Africa of Ghana. Thirty-one participants attended the conference, ...
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Statement of the Africa Initiative on Mining, Environment, and Society (AIMES) Meeting in Accra, Ghana

Aug 12 2005
We, members of the Africa Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES) from Angola, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia in collaboration with our northern partners from Canada and the United Kingdom meeting in Accra Ghana, from April 30 to May 2, 2004 to discuss the pressing challenges facing Africa's extractive sector, ...
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Book review: "Africa’s Blessing, Africa’s Curse: The Legacy of Resource Extraction in Africa"

Aug 12 2005
Africa’s Blessing/Africa’s Curse provides a very accessible overview of resource extraction in Africa, with chapters devoted to gold mining, diamonds and the oil industry. Numerous case studies give a human face to the social, cultural and environmental impacts of mining and the struggles of affected communities to have a say in how Africa should best develop its mineral ...
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African Mining Activists and Researchers Meet in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Nov 24 2001
From October 28-31, Third World Network-Africa and HAKIARDHI (the Lands and Resources Research Institute) hosted an Africa-wide strategy meeting on mining in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The meeting concluded with a statement of principles and a strategy to ensure concerns about mining impacts are on the agenda at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10) in Johannesburg in September 2002. ...
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On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining

Sep 01 2000

On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale MiningReport from the Workshop held in Ottawa, April 14-16, 2000. Prepared by MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Consortium for International Social Development (CCISD).

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