Traduction de «organisation arabe des ressources minières » (Français → Anglais) :

In 2005, the International Labour Organization estimated that on the Latin American continent, Colombia was one of the countries that unfortunately had the largest proportion of children working in mineral resource exploitation and extraction.

Given a backlog of some 20,000 petitions, the country also lacks the capacity to properly monitor existing mining operations, and the mining code reforms passed in 2010 were recently overturned for lack of prior consultation with indigenous organizations.

65. Stresses the role that corporate social responsibility plays by adhering to high environmental and social and labour standards abroad and applying best available technologies; believes these should be promoted through relevant fora such as the G8, G20, WTO, OECD, UNCTAD, UNEP and its International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, the international metals study groups and other bodies; applauds, in this context, positive contributions through the UN's Global Compact; calls on EU companies to develop an appropriate code of conduct for those operating in third countries and to base their activities on the OECD guidelines fo ...[+++]r multinational enterprises and ISO 26000; calls on the Commission to take measures which ensure compliance with social, environmental and labour standards by European companies mining natural resources in third countries; calls on the Commission to come forward with a proposal of its own on country-by-country reporting concerning conflict minerals and to establish legally binding requirements for extractive companies to publish their revenue payments for each project and country they invest in, following the example of the US Dodd-Frank bill; supports the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the global network Publish What You Pay (PWYP); believes that these standards should, in particular, be applied to projects receiving EU funding, for example from the EIB; urges the EU to investigate how the importing of illegally traded or extracted minerals can be prevented; asks the Commission to investigate whether ‘fingerprinting’ technology could be used in this context and to promote pilot projects based on the experiences of the ‘coltan fingerprint’; calls on the EIB to undertake a regular analysis of the expected impacts of its lending in the extractive industry;

It is, then, high time to treat the underlying causes of the crisis in the east of the country, with which everyone is familiar: the presence of the FDLR, the organised pillage of mineral resources, the political frustrations of communities and minorities, and ideas must be made to converge.

The OAPEC delegation was headed by Dr Mana Saeed AL-OTAIBA, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in the United Arab Emirates and current Chairman of OAPEC's Ministerial Council.

Both programmes cover the following measures: - restoration of the fabric of the coal-mining towns (development and improvement of public spaces in the mining districts) - rehabilitation of large-scale degraded areas (spaces where there is no housing any longer, dumps and discharge areas related to mining activity) - restoration of former industrial land (development of old mining pits as cultural heritage) - technology cooperation between businesses and centres of excellence, information superhighway, raising awareness among small businesses of transmission technologies) - management and protection of water resources (protection of coll ...[+++]ection sites, restructuring of water distribution, maintenance of the level of the groundwater table) - local organization of tourism (development of industrial tourism, design of tourism products, promotion of tourism supply, etc.) - aid for productive investment by small businesses.