A new international mining sector standard, compiled by some of the industry’s most powerful players, is the latest example ...

Canada presents itself as a gender equality and human rights champion both at home and abroad. But it's also a global leader ...

Tragic coal mine accident in Assam prompts crackdown on illegal mining operations, activists demand action from government.

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...

L. Ratan Singh, General Secretary of the International Human Rights Council, Tinsukia District Committee, expressed support ...

Tinsukia Rights Council hails court's action on illegal mining. Judicial intervention seen as crucial for environmental ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it will report the MMC for Transport in the City of Johannesburg and deputy ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

Justice for Mining Affected Communities (JMAC), a coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), has expressed outrage over ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...