Government must provide basic services to all shack settlements

The following open letter was sent on Monday 8 July 2019 to Cerrejon Coal and its corporate UK-listed owners, BHP, AngloAmerican and Glencore.

An shorter version of this article first appeared in Left Foot Forward and can be seen here.

05 July 2019  

Greenpeace’s recent exposés of rubbish dumps in Malaysia and a recycling plant in London shows how the growth of this green industry has been built on exploitation in the global South as well as poorly-paid, often migrant workers in the UK. It should provide a lesson to the environmental movement that workers’ rights need to be given much greater priority in the struggle to address environmental challenges.

On 21 May, hundreds of indigenous communities in the Amazon march for their human rights