CEO of corporate watchdog, Rights & Accountability in Development (RAID). Tweet on corporate accountability, #HumanRights #Africa #JustTransition #Greenwashing
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
30 Sep 2025
Barrick begins its search for a new CEO after Mark Bristow’s abrupt exit. We hope the next leader puts human rights front and centre – ensuring that profit never comes above ethical responsibility and the protection of local communities. See more below. financialpost.com/commoditie…
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
14 Jul 2025
A 1,224 page arbitration decision shared with Bloomberg by @PPLAAF contains the 1st-ever testimony from Dan Gertler about his partnership w/ Katumba Mwanke incl. $100s of millions worth of payments to & shares held for Katumba & unnamed Congolese partners🧵bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
14 Jul 2025
A courageous life: Félicité Monga, survivor of the Kilwa massacre in the #DRC and advocate for justice, has passed away – but her fight lives on. The 2004 massacre took place when soldiers, with support from Anvil Mining, crushed a small uprising. More: raid-uk.org/a-courageous-lif…
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
27 Jun 2025
💬 🇨🇩🇷🇼 #RDC-#Rwanda: «Cet accord est basé sur le principe du retrait du Rwanda du Congo», note Jason Stearns, le co-fondateur de l'institut congolais de recherches Ebuteli.
🎙Invité de @ChBoisbouvier #RFImatin 👇
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
26 Jun 2025
We’re accelerating towards a “green” #EnergyTransition – but at whose expense? 🌍⚡ For @London_Climate Action Week 2025, we turn to the DRC, where, with @afrewatch, we looked at toxic #pollution around the country's biggest cobalt mines. Key findings: raid-uk.org/report-environme… #LCAW2025 #LCAW
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
27 Jun 2025
« Nous avons constaté que malgré les milliards générés par l’exploitation minière, les travailleurs congolais vivent dans des conditions inacceptables. Il est temps que cela change »
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
19 Jun 2025
La dernière enquête menée par le RAID et le CAJJ révèle que les droits des travailleurs sont bafoués dans les mines industrielles de cobalt et de cuivre de la République démocratique du Congo.
Ces mines alimentent la transition énergétique mondiale - mais à quel prix humain ?
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6 Jun 2025
@haringeycouncil @ContactHaringey What action is being taken to deal with the fly tipping in Queens Wood? Rubbish has been dropped in this beautiful wood for the past few days. Please act.
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13 Jun 2025
@haringeycouncil @ContactHaringey The rubbish in Queen’s Wood is still there – over 2 weeks now! Please act to remove it. It’s not just an eyesore, but a danger to children, dogs & wildlife. Plus leaving it sends a signal that fly-tipping is tolerated, and brings future trouble.
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12 Jun 2025
Pourquoi les entreprises minières en #RDC #Kolwezi ne paient-elles pas un salaire vital (y compris aux sous-traitants) ? Elles se contentent du minimum légal : 5 $/jour (150 $/mois), loin des 520 $/mois nécessaires pour vivre décemment. #DRCMiningWeek raid-uk.org/le-salaire-decen…
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12 Jun 2025
Why aren’t mining companies paying a living wage to their workers in #DRC (direct and indirect hires)? New research shows companies rely on the $5-a-day legal minimum ($150/mth), well below the $520/mth living wage. That's a poverty wage. #DRCMiningWeek raid-uk.org/drc-kolwezi-livi…
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
10 Jun 2025
As #DRCMiningWeek kicks off, new evidence shows workers in Congo’s cobalt and copper mines are still underpaid and abused.
It’s time for mining companies to pay a living wage to all #workers (direct & indirect hires) and respect labour rights.
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
10 Jun 2025
Alors que #DRCMiningWeek démarre, de nouvelles preuves montrent que les mineurs de cuivre & cobalt en #RDC sont sous-payés et maltraités.
Il est temps de garantir un salaire vital et de respecter les droits des travailleurs, notamment les sous-traitants.
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
8 May 2025
The Justice 4 Nigeria coalition, including @MosopOgoni, @AFRICASeenHeard, @fossilfreeLDN and @amnesty gathered outside the courts this morning to show our solidarity with the Niger Delta community.
Today marks the start of the Bodo community’s claims that Shell has not properly cleaned up the area after their huge oil spills.
💰 Shell has made BILLIONS extracting oil from the Niger Delta.
🌳The communities of the Niger Delta have had their farmland and water POISONED.
And now Shell has sold off their onshore assets in the Niger Delta, meaning they could just walk away.
We can’t let this happen!
Shell needs to clean up NOW.
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29 Apr 2025
The violent crackdown and arrests of Tundu Lissu & others in #Tanzania are a grave threat to constitutional rights—including free elections and peaceful assembly. 2025 must not repeat the mistakes of the past. See grave concerns raised by @ICJ_org lawyers. icj.org/tanzania-joint-state…
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
24 Apr 2025
🔍 Why environmental assessments are failing communities in the DRC’s copper-cobalt belt
We’ve submitted evidence to the @UN Special Rapporteur on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment (@SREnvironment), drawing attention to systemic failures in how #environmental assessments are carried out in the #DRC’s copper-cobalt belt.
Our findings highlight widespread regulatory shortcomings that put fenceline communities at risk.
Learn more & see full submission: raid-uk.org/why-environmenta…
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20 Feb 2025
This is good news!
20 Feb 2025
Finally, some substantive action from the US on Rwanda. James Kaberebe, Rwandan minister for regional integration (but so much more) and the spokesman for the rebel coalition Congo River Alliance Lawrence Kanyuka are sanctioned. Deserved and overdue. state.gov/sanctioning-driver…
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13 Feb 2025
A LUCHA civil society activist shot by M23 at point blank range - alongside 4 other youth activists. This is a disgrace. #DRC #justice
#RDC : Notre camarade BYAMUNGU KATEMA Pierre et 4 membres du Conseil Local de la Jeunesse (CLJ) ont été abbatus par le M23 après avoir été contraints de transporter le matériel des rebelles à Kalehe. Ils ont tous été ciblé en raison de leur militantisme.
Nous exigeons Justice !
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
12 Feb 2025
🚨 In my first investigation of the year, I uncovered allegations energy giant #Shell⛽️ & the Nigerian government 🇳🇬, ignored repeated warnings that a $1bn clean up operation of the #oil-polluted Niger Delta has been a failure and a 'scam' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rq…
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
13 Feb 2025
“It has been a long, hard fight to get here."
The preliminary issues trial over claims Shell is responsible for devastating oil pollution in the Niger Delta has begun at the High Court in London.
Find out more: leighday.co.uk/news/news/202…
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Anneke VanWoudenberg retweeted
13 Feb 2025
TODAY: Protesters gathered at the High Court in London this morning as Shell faces a four-week trial over oil spills in Ogoniland, Nigeria. This trial is a critical moment in the fight for environmental justice and the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
Lawyers representing Ogoniland communities of about 50,000 residents from the Nigel Delta are calling for Shell to take responsibility for oil pollution that occurred between 1989 and 2020. Communities say the spills have left them without clean water, unable to farm and fish, with serious risks to public health.
While a fossil fuel company faces scrutiny in court today, communities in Kolwezi, DRC, are living the next chapter of this crisis, but this time to fuel our electric vehicles (EVs) and renewables. The fight for a cleaner future must not repeat the injustices of the past.
Read more about this stage of the Shell case here: leighday.co.uk/news/news/202…
Read the BBC investigation here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rq…
Visit our research around DRC’s industrial cobalt mines here: raid-uk.org/report-environme…
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