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Experts: Align mining boom with social benefits
18 Sep 2025 08:38 GMT
… traditional exports, communities in mining regions remain on the … Rweyemamu, stressed that no mining activity can commence without … Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), Organisation for … and the Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) Standard could lock …
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Zambian farmers sue Chinese mining firms over toxic spill
17 Sep 2025 17:29 GMT
… tailings dam, and NFC Africa Mining, which owns the surface area … water was highly toxic". Human Rights Watch last week urged the … its holding company, China Nonferrous Mining (CNMC). CNMC did not immediately …
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UN experts concerned about human rights violations linked to mercenary-related activities in natural resource exploitation
16 Sep 2025 09:12 GMT
… activities frequently result in grave human rights abuses, including arbitrary detention, torture … use of PMSCs to protect mining and agribusiness sites, often at … urges companies to conduct rigorous human rights due diligence and suspend operations …
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Norway divests from French mining company over human rights, environmental concerns
15 Sep 2025 17:22 GMT
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15 September 2025
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Côte d’Ivoire: Next president must tackle urgent human rights issues
15 Sep 2025 15:50 GMT
… ensure its compliance with international human rights standards.
“The future president must … . The chemicals used in gold mining are making water sources unfit … information and remedies when their human rights are violated through environmental degradation …
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Canada’s mining companies destroy biodiversity with impunity, Indigenous journalist reports
16 Sep 2025 22:07 GMT
… Donald about how Canadian mining companies are committing human rights abuses and harming … Human Rights Resource Center, was talking about the impacts of transition minerals mining … you know mining companies are doing and all the human rights abuses that …
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North Korea Executes Citizens for Sharing South Korean Dramas and Foreign Films, Tightens Surveillance and Punishments Under Harsh New Laws, Says UN Human Rights Report
14 Sep 2025 11:33 GMT
… to a new United Nations human rights report released on Friday. … , head of the UN human rights office for North Korea, … hazardous sectors such as coal mining and construction. These practices … Korea has dismissed the UN Human Rights Council’s mandate for …
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How a profit-sharing agreement could be a new model for mining on Indigenous land
15 Sep 2025 08:37 GMT
… and outright ignoring human rights. Even in the United States, mining companies have … tribal sovereignty and self-determination.
Mining operations, and most especially … international rights violation report by Human Rights Watch, Mason noted there are …
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Activists demand action on mining rights abuses in Africa
15 Sep 2025 06:20 GMT
… experiencing human rights violations by the Chinese miners
Civil societies representing mining- … to speak about human rights violations caused by foreign-owned mining firms to … on the Chinese mining sector’s investment and the human rights violations because …
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Analysis-In Congo, army and rebels dig in for war Trump says is over
18 Sep 2025 05:40 GMT
… officials.
The U.N. and human rights groups have documented hundreds of … withdrawing from Walikale, the tin mining town they briefly held.
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