The government of Uganda is in the final stages of developing an oil spills contingency plan, which will introduce stringent guidelines for concerned oil companies.

Eight concerns, including diversified mining and marketing company Glencore, have joined forces to transform the informal mining of cobalt for the better.

New Binding Treaty draft provides companies a glimpse into the future of legal liability for human rights abuses.

Indigenous groups in Chile’s lithium-rich Atacama salt flat, fresh off a resounding legal victory earlier this week, said on Friday they will push to see top lithium miner SQM’s environmental permits revoked and its operations shut down.

On 6 August 2020, the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) released the Second Revised Draft of the proposed binding treaty on business and human rights.

The Federal Government of Nigeria is undertaking series of reforms of the country’s Bilateral International Treaties (BIT) to attract responsible, inclusive, balanced and sustainable investments.

Three more Tanzanian victims have joined a legal claim in British courts against Barrick Gold subsidiaries for serious human rights violations at the company’s North Mara gold mine in northern Tanzania.

Angry residents in Peru’s Andean and Amazon regions have attacked three mining and oil sector firms in the last week, two of which were forced to halt operations after deadly clashes, as a second wave of COVID-19 infections hits the country.

The Global Tailings Review (GTR) on August 5 launched the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, which aims to ensure tailings dam failures are a thing of the past.

Protesters in Peru attacked a convoy of vehicles from the Las Bambas mining group, one of Peru’s largest copper producers, and set fire to some of them, underscoring tensions in the country that has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

On 29 April 2020, the European Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders, announced that the European Union will propose new mandatory human rights due diligence legislation in 2021.

Mining companies’ corporate social responsibility programs could yield better outcomes if they tackled “real change on the ground,” new research has found.

The number of companies within the oil and gas industry turning to power their operations using renewable energy is increasing, according to a new report issued by IHS Markit.

More than 200 000 Brazilian people and groups will next week kick off a five-billion-pound lawsuit against Anglo-Australian miner BHP in Britain over a 2015 dam failure that led to Brazil's worst environmental disaster.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed the Ministry of Lands to intervene and resolve the lease dispute between Murang’a residents and Thika-based Del Monte Foods that owns 22,000 acres.

Renewable energy provides a key to Africa’s development. The climate benefits of using the sun and wind to produce electricity means energy for development without compounding the problem of climate change. Africa has an opportunity to largely leapfrog using fossil fuels for electricity production.

Environmental activists have sued Ghana’s government to stop a proposed mining project in a protected national forest, which they say endangers their health and well-being, amid growing calls to increase nature reserves to combat climate change.

Communities in Africa are increasingly using litigation to challenge large extractive projects that exacerbate the climate emergency and loss of biodiversity.

Over 100 Catholic leaders from around the world have released an unprecedented statement calling on the introduction of mandatory human rights due diligence.

On 7 July 2020, corporate and NGO members of the Voluntary Principles Initiative released a Joint Statement on Policing and Respect for Human Rights.