Local communities and indigenous peoples
local communities: reading
- India: Orissa, Kashipur: Utkal bauxite & alumina project: human rights and environmental impacts
- R. Gooldland / Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2007
- This report reviews environmental and social aspects of plans by Utkal Alumina Industries Ltd to mine bauxite and refine alumina. The project is a joint venture between Canada’s Alcan and Hindalco. T...
- All that glitters: gold mining in Guyana – the failure of government oversight and the human rights of Amerindian communities
- Harvard Law School, 2007
- This report documents the failure of Guyanese mining regulations to prevent severe human rights abuses and devastating damage to the natural environment and the communities where Amerindians live.T...
- Gold Rush: The impact of gold mining on poor people in Obuasi in Ghana
- ActionAid International, 2006
- Report highlighting how poor communities in Obuasi, Ghana are suffering environmental pollution and social problems apparently as a result of gold mining activity. It examines how rivers and streams h...
- Socio-economic effects of gold mining in Mali: a Study of the Sadiola and Morila mining operations
- E. Jul-Larsen; B. Kassibo; S. Lange; I. Samset / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006
- This is a study of the economic and social impacts of the gold mining industry in Mali. It asks how the exploitation of valuable natural resources could be improved to benefit all stakeholders - state...
- Dirty metals: mining, communities and the environment
- Oxfam, 2004
- This report analyses all aspects of the metals mining industry, the extraction process, its products, and its social and environmental impacts. It also makes recommendations for the industry and conce...
- Indigenous peoples and mining encounters: strategies and tactics
- T. E. Downing; J. Moles; I. McIntosh; C. Garcia-Downing / Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project, IIED, 2002
- This paper argues that mining can not be considered ‘sustainable’ if indigenous cultures are rendered unsustainable in the process. Given that many remaining unexploited ores lie under indigenous land...
