Blockade stops British company’s midnight entry into tribes' land
A blockade mounted by 50 protestors stopped British mining company Vedanta entering the land of the Dongria Kondh tribe under cover of darkness last night.
A blockade mounted by 50 protestors stopped British mining company Vedanta entering the land of the Dongria Kondh tribe under cover of darkness last night.
Santa Claus today made a special delivery to the Mayfair home of Anil Agarwal, billionaire Chairman of UK mining giant Vedanta Resources.
The award of the ‘Indian Entrepreneur of the Year’ prize to Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal has been met with derision from the Dongria Kondh tribe, whose sacred mountain Vedanta plans to destroy.
Survival International has targeted corporate social responsibility consultancy CO3 for representing British mining company Vedanta Resources, and is urging CO3 to resign its account in the interest of human rights.
Hundreds of members of the Dongria Kondh tribe danced and sang through the capital of the Indian state of Orissa on Monday, to mark their opposition to British company Vedanta’s plans to mine their sacred mountain.
One of India’s most isolated tribes, the Dongria Kondh, is preparing to stop British FTSE 100 company Vedanta from mining aluminium ore on their sacred mountain, after police and hired thugs forced protestors to dismantle a barricade.
A Survival campaigner has just returned from a visit to the Dongria Kondh tribe in India, who are under threat from FTSE 100 mining company Vedanta.
British mining company Vedanta is under intense pressure over its plans to mine the Dongria Kondh tribe’s land in India, as a Scottish investment group sells its shares and Amnesty International joins the campaign in support of the tribe.