UN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY: SURVIVAL NAMES 'UNHOLY TRINITY'

To mark the UN Day for Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, Survival
International today named its 'unholy trinity' – the three worst companies
abusing tribal peoples' rights. They are:

1. VEDANTA. This FTSE-100 company is determined to construct a bauxite mine
on the sacred hills of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Orissa, India. It has
already built a $1 billion aluminium refinery at the foot of the hills, even
though it does not yet have permission to mine. The Dongria Kondh, one of
India's most isolated tribes, are resolutely opposed to the mine, which will
destroy them as a people.

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