Difference between revisions of "African Minerals"

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==Lobbying and PR firms==
 
==Lobbying and PR firms==
 
*[[Tavistock Communications]] - [[Jos Simson]] / [[Nuala Gallagher]]
 
*[[Tavistock Communications]] - [[Jos Simson]] / [[Nuala Gallagher]]
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==Affiliations==
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*[[RAB Capital]]
  
 
==External resources==
 
==External resources==
  
 
*Human Rights Watch, 'Whose Development? Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone’s Mining Boom'
 
*Human Rights Watch, 'Whose Development? Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone’s Mining Boom'
:This 96-page report documents how the government and London-based African Minerals Limited forcibly relocated hundreds of families from verdant slopes to a flat, arid area in Tonkolili District. As a result, residents lost their ability to cultivate crops and engage in income generating activities that once sustained them. Police carried out a bloody crackdown in the town of Bumbuna in April 2012 to quell a protest by workers who went on strike after being barred from forming a union of their own choosing. <ref> [https://www.hrw.org/reports/2014/02/19/whose-development-0 Whose Development?], Human Rights Watch,  
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::This 96-page report documents how the government and London-based African Minerals Limited forcibly relocated hundreds of families from verdant slopes to a flat, arid area in Tonkolili District. As a result, residents lost their ability to cultivate crops and engage in income generating activities that once sustained them. Police carried out a bloody crackdown in the town of Bumbuna in April 2012 to quell a protest by workers who went on strike after being barred from forming a union of their own choosing. <ref> [https://www.hrw.org/reports/2014/02/19/whose-development-0 Whose Development?], Human Rights Watch, 19 February 2014 </ref>
  
 
*African Minerals, [http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/AfricanMineralsReply.pdf Emailed Statement from African Minerals in response to Human Rights Watch Report], undated.
 
*African Minerals, [http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/AfricanMineralsReply.pdf Emailed Statement from African Minerals in response to Human Rights Watch Report], undated.

Revision as of 03:26, 7 March 2014

Contact details

African Minerals Limited
5 Stratton Street
London W1J 8LA

People

Lobbying and PR firms

Affiliations

External resources

  • Human Rights Watch, 'Whose Development? Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone’s Mining Boom'
This 96-page report documents how the government and London-based African Minerals Limited forcibly relocated hundreds of families from verdant slopes to a flat, arid area in Tonkolili District. As a result, residents lost their ability to cultivate crops and engage in income generating activities that once sustained them. Police carried out a bloody crackdown in the town of Bumbuna in April 2012 to quell a protest by workers who went on strike after being barred from forming a union of their own choosing. [1]

Notes

  1. Whose Development?, Human Rights Watch, 19 February 2014