Includes a resource extraction section among its 10,000 articles from alternative sources from and about Africa, plus an e-zine of original writing, all for the promotion of human rights and economic justice.
To enhance equity and wellbeing in mining communities through improved social/environmental mining practices, governance and the implementation of ecosystem restoration practices.
...communities who use their natural resources in such a way at the present time that they maintain an acceptable level of social, economic and ecological health for future generations...
A group of fishermen, business owners and local citizens working to help ensure that the people who live, work, and play in the Bristol Bay region have the most influential voice of any group regarding the future of our land and waters.
The Canadian Centre for International Justice/Centre canadien pour la justice internationale is a charitable organization that works with survivors of genocide, torture and other atrocities to seek redress and bring perpetrators to justice.
CISPES is a national, grassroots, solidarity organization working since 1980 in solidarity with the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) and the Salvadoran social justice movement to promote an alternative to the oppressive US-backed policies of the Salvadoran right.
A multi-sectoral working group which confronts, and proposes an alternative to, the social, environmental and economic effects of economic integration in the Americas.
A non-profit membership-based conservation organization - the only national non-profit organization devoted exclusively to protecting Canada's wilderness heritage.
The Halifax Initiative is a coalition of development, environment, labour, human rights and faith groups deeply concerned about the international financial system and its institutions.
The Mineral Policy Institute (MPI) is an Australian-based non-government organisation specialising in advocacy, campaigning and research to prevent environmentally and socially destructive mining, minerals and energy projects in Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
Rights Action funds community-controlled development, environmental, human rights and emergency-relief projects in Guatemala, Honduras, Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico) and El Salvador, and does education and activism work with North Americans to address global exploitation, repression, enviro-destruction and racism.
Promoting the advancement of education and the reduction of poverty in Canada and elsewhere associated with the impacts of mineral development on the physical, cultural, social, and emotional health of humans and human communities, and on the health of the environment.
A national, grassroots organization of U.S. citizens and residents who have formed ongoing partnerships with rural communities in El Salvador struggling for social justice.
50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice is a coalition of over 200 U.S. grassroots, women's, solidarity, faith-based, policy, social- and economic-justice, youth, labor and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Written by the Environment Centre Northern Territory (ECNT) in Australia. Documents Rio Tinto activity in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Nambia, the UK and Australia
Created by the Pastoral "Salvaguarda de la Creación" of the community of Alto del Carmen in the Huasco valley in order to provide information on Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama project in the 3rd region of Chile.
Working together to raise public awareness of the impacts of the mining industry to Alaska's watersheds, wildlife, fisheries, communities and public health and to reform Alaska's inadequate mining laws.
BAC is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization of asbestos victims and their families, scientists, academics, activists and concerned citizens dedicated to banning all types of asbestos world-wide.