A project run by ExxonMobil to supply China and Japan with liquefied gas for the next 30 years is changing life in Papua New Guinea with wildly inequitable results for local people. ...

It is likely that most US citizens who consider themselves informed about global events are aware of the genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia and East Timor, yet it’s likely that few people in the US are aware of the o ...

Indigenous freedom fighters, isolated & outnumbered and with almost no weapons, wage a resistance struggle against a massive army and brutal police forces with US training & funding. ...

London will soon play host to the 2012 Olympics, which organisers boast will be the most environmentally friendly ever. But with the metal for all the medals coming from one huge polluting hole in the ground in Utah, ...

As a child growing up in the remote highlands of West Papua, we often heard stories from the elders about how our ancestors’ spirits lived in the mountains and forests. How they would cry if they saw what is h ...

Rio Tinto is bad news for many communities around the world. Its operations have failed to provide adequate protection of public health, the environment, workers and human rights. It is a scandal that it should be pr ...

“…for all the fine words it could well be mining companies that gain the upper hand and exploit low income countries thanks to Australian aid dollars.” - Australian Senator Lee Rhiannon ...

Those of us in Papua New Guinea who aren’t colonized by AUSAID Mining Consultants keep looking at the Watut disaster, the Fly River disaster, the Panguna disaster and laugh at the AUSAID’s bullshit abou ...

“Freeport has long been the source of conflict… A majority of Papuans, who have different ethnic and religious roots to their political leaders in Jakarta, want independence.” In the U.S., Occupy P ...

As December 1st, West Papua's Independence Day, approaches, many are becoming concerned about the possibility of serious violence. ...

A rough translation of Rio Tinto from Spanish into English is Red River. Spain’s Rio Tinto is characterized by deep red water that is highly acidic (pH 1.7—2.5) and rich in heavy metals. Over 5000 years ...

A US federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit seeking to hold Rio Tinto responsible for human rights violations and thousands of deaths linked to a Bougainville copper and gold mine it once ran. ...

U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Cooper & Gold Inc. halted production at its gold and copper mine in Indonesia's restive province of Papua on Monday over security concerns. ...

Indigenous Papuans are waging a four-decade long nonviolent struggle for independence from Indonesia. At the heart of Papuan grievances lies Freeport, the world’s largest gold and copper mine... ...

The US mining firm Freeport McMoRan has been accused of everything from polluting the environment to funding repression in its four decades working in the Indonesian province of Papua. Freeport is a symbol of everyth ...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare said, “Rio Tinto played an active role in military operations that ultimately led to a civil war in which 15,000 people died.” ...

Free West Papua Campaign UK Long March to BP & Rio Tinto HQ Headquaters in London 2011 ...

“Mr Speaker, in other words, it was our national policy to sacrifice the lives and future of some 800,000 West Papuan New Guineans to the Indonesian military in exchange, supposedly, for Sukarno and later Suhar ...

‘The reality is grim…’ reads an newly de-classified cable to the Department of State, ‘Now there is no freedom of speech, no freedom of movement, and forceful oppression is the rule ’. ...

Benny Wenda, a West Papuan independence leader, questions Rio Tinto regarding its conduct at the Grasberg Mine, in his home country. ...