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Revealed: in 13 years, operations have rescued 333 workers from slavery in brazilian mines
An exclusive report by the Mining Observatory shows that, since 2008, 333 workers have been rescued in mines in Brazil under slave-labor conditions. There were…
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Vale and BHP: reimbursement of R$ 24 billion involving Samarco and the Mariana disaster is challenged in court
A group of Samarco creditors accuses brazilian Vale and the anglo-australian BHP, the company’s owners, of making financial maneuvers using the Renova Foundation, created to…
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Peruvian mining group Minsur pollutes rivers in Waimiri-Atroari indigenous land in the Amazon
A leak of tailings dams from the mining company Taboca, owned by the peruvian group Minsur, which operates in Presidente Figueiredo (AM), 300km from Amazonas…
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IACHR to investigate brazilian government and mining companies for human rights violations during the pandemic based on stories by the Mining Observatory
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accepted a complaint from union entities about the agglomerations of workers and the violations of rights during the…
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More than 140 jurists and organizations request the immediate removal of Mariana disaster case judge
More than 140 jurists, researchers and politicians sign an open letter in which they request the immediate removal of the substitute judge Mário de Paula…
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Bolsonaro and Funai pressure indigenous leaders for mining
“We are involving the President of the Republic, wanting to help, ministers, do I have to listen about cooperatives? The patience is over. Do you…
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Justice Institutions request the removal of Mariana disaster case judge
The Public Prosecutors Office, the Minas Gerais Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Public Defender Office and the public defenders of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais asked…
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Mariana disaster case judge’s impartiality under suspicion
Records of meetings held between the judge responsible for the Mariana disaster case and lawyers from Espírito Santo state in 2020 and 2021 indicate a…
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Anglo American does not halt mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon
Anglo American has confirmed, in a letter sent to the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) and Amazon Watch, that it does not intend…
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Brazil prosecutors request the extinction of Renova Foundation and the payment of R$ 10 billion in moral damages by Vale, BHP and Samarco
The Renova Foundation can no longer exist because it represents the interests of the mining companies Vale, BHP and Samarco and are unable to independently…
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Minas Gerais Public Prosecutor’s Office rejects Renova Foundation accounts for the fourth time
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Minas Gerais (MPMG) has just announced that it rejected the Renova Foundation’s accounts for 2019 and pointed out that the…
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Mining companies linked to indigenous rights violations in the brazilian Amazon received billions from american financiers
U.S.-based financial institutions play a key role in enabling the destructive actions of companies linked to violations of Indigenous rights and conflicts in Indigenous territories…
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Surge in forest loss seen if Brazil indigenous reserves opened to mining
Published on Thomson Reuters Foundation A Brazilian government proposal to open indigenous land in Brazil to mining concessions could lead to the loss of forests…
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Revealed: Vale and BHP accused of pocketing money that should grant aid after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster
The original version of this story was published here in portuguese on July 27 We had exclusive access to examine a whistleblower report received by…
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‘Unacceptably high’ risk of tailings dam failure in Canadian miner’s Amazon project
Original story by The Mining Observatory translated and published by Mongabay A new report makes the case that the tailings dam for what would be…
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Behind Vale’s Deadly Dams, a Wave of Lobbying
Special investigation published in partnership with Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), one of the main investigative journalism references in the world. Read the…
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Mining director in Brazil plans ‘regulatory guillotine’
Published in partnership with Unearthed, the Greenpeace UK investigative journalism website The director of Brazil’s National Mining Agency (ANM), plans to take a “regulatory guillotine”…
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Canada’s Belo Sun hits legal hurdles in bid to mine indigenous land in Brazil
Original story by The Mining Observatory translated and published by Mongabay Canadian mining company Belo Sun continues to survey for gold inside indigenous territories in…
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Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous peoples
Original story by The Mining Observatory translated and published by Mongabay Nearly 4,000 requests have been submitted for mining-related activities on 31 indigenous reserves and…
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