MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014 (soas, RUSSELL SQUARE, london)
Registration [9.00-9.15 AM]
Welcome and tea/coffee
Introduction [9.15-9.30 AM]
Philippe Cullet, SOAS
Mining, Law and Tribals in India [9.30-11.00 AM]
Chair: Salil Tripathi, Institute for Human Rights and Business
Usha Ramanathan, Independent Law Researcher
Dispensability, invisibility, marginalisation
Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Campaign for Survival and Dignity
Financialisation, the mining industry and resource rights: linkages in the Indian context Mining and social impact assessment
Felix Padel, University of Sussex
Mining and Social Impact Assessments
Tea/coffee 11.00-11.15 AM
Human Rights Dimension [11.15-12.45 PM]
Chair: Jake White, Friends of the Earth UK
Seema Joshi, Amnesty International
Legal reforms in relation to corporate abuse, mining, and the right to remedy
Salil Tripathi, Institute for Human Rights and Business
Human Rights Challenges of Mining in High-Risk Areas
Patricia Feeney, Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID)
Anvil Mining and the Kilwa Incident, Democratic Republic of Congo: The Long Road to Justice
[powerpoint presentation]
Lunch 12.45-2.00 PM
Environmental and Development Implications [2.00-3.00 PM]
Chair: Andrew Hickman, Down to Earth
Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies
The Extraction Imperative or the Curse of Development?
[powerpoint presentation]
Garciela Romero Vasques, War on Want
Who really benefits from natural resources: development, trade and investment geared towards extractive industries
Tea/coffee 3.00-3.15 PM
State, public movements and interventions: Country Case Studies
[3.15-4.30 PM]
Chair: Patricia Feeney, RAID
Carl Cesar Rebuta, Lsk-Friends of the Earth Philippines
Escalating Investment Refugees in Mindanao Island, Philippines
[powerpoint presentation]
Andrew Hickman, Down to Earth
The rush to extract profit: UK involvement in the mining, oil and gas sector in Indonesia
[powerpoint presentation]
Irina Velicu, Marie Curie Post-doctoral Researcher, ENTITLE, ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Undoing Environmental Justice: Reflections from Post-Communist Romania
[powerpoint presentation]
Access to justice, Information, Participation and Liability [4.30-5.45 PM]
Chair: Seema Joshi, Amnesty International
Richard Meeran, Leighday
Human rights litigation against multinational mining companies
[powerpoint presentation]
Sue Willman, Deighton Peirce Glynn
In search of a remedy for human rights and environmental violations: The Community Response to Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia
[powerpoint presentation]
Jake White, Friends of the Earth
Access to environmental justice and fracking
[powerpoint presentation]
Towards Equity in Mining [5.45-6.15 PM]
General discussion moderated by Usha Ramanathan
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