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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, | :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, | ||
| − | *[http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/AfricanMineralsReply.pdf | + | *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. |
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Revision as of 03:24, 7 March 2014
Contact details
- African Minerals Limited
- 5 Stratton Street
- London W1J 8LA
People
- Graham Foyle-Twining, Global head of Human Resources and Sustainable Development
- Mike Jones
Lobbying and PR firms
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. <ref> Whose Development?, Human Rights Watch,
- African Minerals, Emailed Statement from African Minerals in response to Human Rights Watch Report, undated.
