Peruvians asks Washington-based human rights commission to halt Newmont’s Conga project
Peruvians asks Washington-based human rights commission to halt Newmont’s Conga project
Cecilia Jamasmie | March 13, 2013
Farmers and indigenous from northern Peru will travel to Washington next week to ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for help with forcing the Peruvian government halt Newmont Mining’s (NYSE: NEM) $4.8 billion gold-copper Conga project in Peru, a community spokesman told AFP.
The group, which filed the petition in April last year, has been asked to appear on March 18 and 19 to provide an update on the Conga project, which —they claim— continues to advance despite officially deemed as “suspended.”
The news comes on the heels on another complaint filed Monday by anti-mining activists accusing Peru's government of rights abuses during protests against the mining project.
The legal moves could further stall efforts to revive U.S.-based Newmont’s project, which President Ollanta Humala's administration put on hold in August last year, after nine months of protests in the northern gold-rich region of Cajamarca.
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