Post on 17-Aug-2015
Unraveling Global Corporate Mining Today: Challenges to Mining Campaigners
The Interna:onal People’s Conference on Mining 2015
Catherine Coumans, Ph.D.
Unraveling Global Corporate Mining Today: Challenges to Mining Campaigners
• New and emerging challenges
• New strategies by industry, and its supporters
• Greater effec:veness through joint campaigning
Unraveling Global Corporate Mining Today: Challenges to Mining Campaigners
• Mines Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) • Rio + 10 “mining is sustainable” • Interna:onal Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) • Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development
From Resource Curse to Resource Endowment
• Growing Literature on the Resource Curse and Dutch Disease
• Increasing cases of severe human rights abuses – excessive use of force by mine security (bea:ngs, killings, rape), forced reloca:ons, criminaliza:on of dissent....