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Honduran women workers speak out against labour violations
Land and rivers have been polluted with heavy metals such as mercury, cyanide and lead

Glencore’s exit from the Philippines
Glencore has sold its shares of the gold-copper Tampakan mine after about five years
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Killer drones
Drones are indiscriminate weapons of war that have been responsible for thousands of civilian deaths

Oil uprising: Two decades after Ken Saro-Wiwa's death, the Ogoni struggle is reigniting
The Ogoni people's struggle against Shell

Colombian protests show cracks in disastrous economic model
Colombia bore witness to a remarkable uprising

Communities mark anniversary of killings of protestors in struggle against Conga mining project in Peru
Cajamarca are fighting off the second largest gold mining project in South America

Mali, Algeria, Libya and the new front line in ‘energy diplomacy’
The reality of the never-ending War on Terror is that it is integrally bound up with an imperialistic drive for resources

War on Want statement on Israel’s assault on Gaza
The root cause of the crisis in Gaza is Israel's illegal occupation

Could we be about to see a ‘miner spring'?
The Marikana strike, and the violent repression of the miners, has sent shockwaves