Peruvians asks Washington-based human rights commission to halt Newmont’s Conga project

By Cecilia Jamasmie

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 …read more