Gem Diamonds

Botswana approves $3bn mine as Bushman water case gets underway

Kailash — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:48:41 +0000

Botswana’s government has green-lighted a massive $3bn mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve – in the middle of the Kalahari Bushmen’s appeal against the Botswana authorities’ refusal to allow them access to water there.

Gem Diamonds announced today that its application to open a huge diamond mine near the Bushman community of Gope in the reserve has been approved.

Victory for Kalahari Bushmen as court grants right to water

Kailash — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:56:46 +0000

In a momentous decision, Botswana’s Court of Appeal today quashed a ruling that denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water on their ancestral lands.

With support from Survival, the Bushmen appealed a 2010 High Court judgment that prevented them from accessing a well which they rely on for water.

Submission to UN Committee on Racial Discrimination (CERD) with regard to the United Kingdom

whit — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:53:01 +0100

Indigenous Peoples Links coordinated a submissions to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 79th Session with regard to the United Kingdom’s responsibility to ensure respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples overseas in the context of UK transnational corporations (TNC) activities impacting on them.

The UK will be reviewed on the 23rd and 24th of August 2011 and the concluding observations should be posted at the close of the session on the 2nd of September.

Submission by PIPLinks, Down to Earth, University of Middlesex and London Mining Ne