Progress - Responsibility - Mining: The Poor Ignored
Further to the mining issue (see Feb. 1st, and 22nd posts), I would like to refer everyone to a report from the United Kingdom on the same issue in which TVI a Canadian Corporation is mentioned with grave concern:This report describes in detail what is happening. If you would like to help please visit the Halifax Initiative website an initiative endorsed by : Development and Peace
In 2006, Clare Short, Member of Parliament of the House of Commons and former UK Secretary of State for Overseas Development, led a team of human rights and environmental experts on a fact finding visit to the Philippines in order to examine the impact of mining on the environment and people?s livelihoods. In the foreword of the fact finding mission to the Philippines report, she wrote: ?We heard how indigenous people had been shifted off their lands to make way for mining and how their consultation rights had been undermined and ignored. We saw polluted rivers, destroyed mangrove forests, damaged coral and ruined agriculture. We concluded that the Philippines is in danger of losing much of its rich biodiversity and damaging the lives of unique indigenous cultures.? Click here to read the original text of the Report
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