Workshop Schedule

Introduction

• Philippe Cullet

Mining, Law and Tribunals in India

Chair: Salil Tripathi

• Usha Ramanathan: Dispensibility, invisibility, marginalisation
• Shankar Gopalakrishnan: 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

Human Rights Dimension

Chair: Jake White

• Seema Joshi: Legal reforms in relation to corporate abuse, mining, and the right to remedy
• Salil Tripathi: Human Rights Challenges of Mining in High-Risk Areas
• Patricia Feeney: Human Rights, Corporate Accountability

Environmental and Development Implications

Chair: Seema Joshi

• Murat Arsel: The Extraction Imperative or the Curse of Development?
• Garciela Romero Vasques: Natural Resource exploitation and social movements

State, Public Movements and Interventions: Case Studies from Philippines and Romania

Chair: Patricia Feeney

• Andrew Hickman: The rush to extract profit: UK involvement in the mining, oil and gas sector in Indonesia
• Carl Cesar Rebuta: Defending community resource rights in the Philippines
• Irina Velicu: Undoing Environmental Justice: Reflections from Post-Communist Romania

Access to Justice, Information and Liability

Chair: Felix Padel

• Andy Whitmore: Prior informed consent
• Richard Meeran: Litigation, liability and compensation
• Sue Willman: In search of a remedy for human rights and environmental violations: The Community Response to Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia
• Richard Solly: Supporting mining-affected communities in their struggle for justice - the work of London Mining Network
• Jake White: Access to environmental justice and fracking

Towards Equity in Mining

Discussion moderated by Usha Ramanathan.