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Report Details Unacceptable Impacts from Deep Sea Mining by Canada's Nautilus Minerals
Thursday, November 24, 2011

News Release: The Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights in Papua New Guinea and MiningWatch Canada and have released a new report called "Out of Our Depth." It details serious environmental and social impacts expected as a result of unprecedented mining of the ocean floor. 

Water, Papua New Guinea, Water and fisheries
Philippine Province Bans Open Pit Mining – Affects TVI Pacific’s Operations
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

News release: The government of Zamboanga del Norte in the Philippines has issued an ordinance prohibiting new open pit mines in the province.

Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philippines, Human Rights, TVI Pacific
Ivanhoe Flees Opposition in the Philippines
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Ivanhoe Philippines, Inc. has asked the Philippine Mines and Geosciences Bureau for a "withdrawal of the company's exploration permit applications (...) in Tablas Island."

Corporate Accountability, Philippines, Ivanhoe
MiningWatch and Papua New Guinea Partners File Complaint on Porgera Mine
Monday, June 6, 2011

On March 1, 2011, MiningWatch Canada and our Papua New Guinea partners from Akali Tange Association and the Porgera Landowners Association filed a “Request for Review” with the Canadian National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Newsletter 30: Spring 2011
Mining Mongolia: Ivanhoe, T-shirts, NGOs, and Wikileaks
Sunday, June 5, 2011

In 2005, Robert Friedland, chairman of the Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., famously regaled potential investors in Florida with his Mongolian mega-project, the “cash machine we really intend to build,” – a massive copper-gold and coal project in the southern Gobi desert called Oyu Tolgoi or Turquoise Hill.

Corporate Accountability, Mongolia, Corporate Social Responsibility, Newsletter 30: Spring 2011, Ivanhoe
FPIC: The 'C' stands for 'Consent'
Friday, May 20, 2011

Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is clearly established as an international human rights norm. The right of Indigenous peoples to grant or withhold approval for actions affecting their rights is an integral element of the right of self-determination. Article 3 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) reflects the right of self-determination in common article 1 of the two human rights Covenants.

Australia, Canada, Corporate Accountability, United States, Indigenous Rights
Indigenous Papua New Guinea Leaders Protest Ongoing Abuses at Barrick’s Porgera Mine
Thursday, May 5, 2011

News release: (Ottawa, May 5, 2011) For the fourth year in a row, Indigenous Ipili leaders from Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are in Canada to protest ongoing severe environmental impacts and human rights abuses associated with Barrick’s Porgera mine.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights
Request for Review of the Operations of Barrick Gold Corp. at the Porgera Joint Venture in Papua New Guinea
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

On March 1, 2011, MiningWatch Canada and two of our partner organizations in Papua New Guinea submitted a Request for Review to the office of the Canadian National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. The Request for Review concerns the operations of Barrick Gold Corporation at the Porgera Joint Venture mine on the land of the indigenous Ipili of Porgera, Enga province, Papua New Guinea.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Women
Human Rights Report Confirms Rapes by Security Guards at Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

News release: A report released today by Human Rights Watch confirms allegations of gang rapes and other human rights abuses by security guards of Barrick Gold’s Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights
Support for Mining Over Democratic Principles in Papua New Guinea
Sunday, July 18, 2010

The global mining industry uses high-risk mining practices and employs environmentally destructive mine waste disposal methods in Papua New Guinea (PNG) that are not tolerated in most other countries, including Canada. Canadian companies continue to severely affect major tropical rivers in PNG by using them as mine waste dumps. They have also dumped millions of tons of metal and chemical laden mine waste into PNG’s seas, and now, Nautilus Minerals out of Toronto plans to mine massive underwater sulphide deposits in the rich biologically diverse territorial waters of PNG.

Misima Mine - Barrick, Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Newsletter 28: Summer 2010, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal

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