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  India: Orissa, Kashipur: Utkal bauxite & alumina project: human rights and environmental impacts

  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.
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  National roundtables on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian extractive industry in developing countries: advisory group report

  Foreign Affairs Canada, Canada, 2007

  This report presents agreed findings and recommendations on how Canada can enhance corporate social responsibility (CSR) in its extractive industry working in developing countries. The report reflects the view of those who participated in four National Roundtables on CSR from both the public and from governmental and non-governmental experts.
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  The effectiveness of multi-stakeholder initiatives in the oil and gas sector: summary report

  TwentyFifty, 2007

  This report explores the effectiveness of multi-stakeholder initiatives in governing the oil and gas sector.
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  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.The report finds large gaps in regulation which deprive people of critical rights over the lands they occupy, and misallocate resources and responsibilities.
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  Conflict diamonds: US jewelery retailers still not doing enough – summary of the US results of Global Witness and Amnesty International survey

  Global Witness, 2007

  This report presents summarises the results of a survey evaluating the regulation of “blood diamonds” in the US diamond jewellery retail sector.
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  Turning treasure into tears: mining, dams and deforestation in Shwegyin township, Pegu Division, Burma

  EarthRights International, 2007

  This report addresses the environmental and human rights situation faced by villagers and migrant workers in Shwegyin township of Nyaunglebin District, Pegu Division, Burma.
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  Valley of darkness: gold mining and militarisation in Burma’s Hugawng Valley

  Kachin Development Networking Group, 2007

  The remote and environmentally rich Hugawng Valley in Burma’s northern Kachin State is internationally recognised as one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity.
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  Chop fine: the human rights impact of local government corruption and mismanagement in Rivers State, Nigeria

  Human Rights Watch, 2007

  This Human Rights Watch report examines the misuse of public funds by local officials in the Rivers State of Nigeria’s. It is based on interviews in Rivers state with government and donor agency officials, civil servants, health care workers, teachers, civil society groups and local residents.
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  Hidden treasure?: in search of Mali’s gold-mining revenues

  Oxfam America, 2007

  This study provides a picture of how extractive revenues are managed by the Government of Mali.
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  Learning from AMEC’s oil and gas asset support operations in the Asia Pacific Region, with case-study of the Shell Malampaya Gas-to-Power Project

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This is the first in a series of evidence-based reports on the role of large engineering contractors in strengthening the positive local economic and social impacts of capital investment projects in the oil and gas sector in developing countries.

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