
CSOs 4 Tailings Justice
We are committed to building democratic community power to address the dangers of mine waste, including tailings facilities.
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Current realities, threats, resistance and our committment to alternatives for a future beyond extractivism. We, the participants of the Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivist Economy, gathered in Semarang, Indonesia from the 16th to the 19th October 2023, to strengthen and build a broad global movement of resistance to mining and extractivism and build…
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Merriespruit was South Africa’s worst dam tailings disaster — 17 people were killed and 80 houses destroyed — but such events are rare, according to Mariette Liefferink, the chief executive of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment. But, since 2015, research of all serious failures of tailing storage facilities (TSF) around the world has shown…