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In a complaint, Vinod, 24, of Bangalore, and Khetaram, 25, of Rajasthan, said they boarded the bus in Salem on Thursday morning. When the bus was approaching Tiruvannamalai, they found the bag in which they were carrying the jewellery was empty.


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Thank you dtbaker and imangm for valuable tips! I already managed to reduce VisualComposer size to 4MB by only deleting demo content as you said! It's sad that I will have to repeat this process every time they update a plugin 8-(
I still think that hosting these plugins on a private BitBucket repo can make a trick, but have not enough information/knowledge on how to make it secure.
I'm wondering if Envato can come with some sort of solution for it in the future to make this process easier and smooth for the end users. On their new requirements page there is the next text:
Bundled plugins must be included via the TGM Plugin Activation class, which manages plugin dependency and plugins can be installed from WordPress.org or a bundled ZIP file (more options coming soon).
(more options coming soon) brings me some hope or I'm wrong?
Right, but I can't see anyone use it this way. Moreover, can we host premium plugins like Visual Composer on external host? How to protect these sources from pirate downloads?
VisualComposer(6.5MB) + LayerSlider (7MB) is ~14MB + 4MB theme files = ~18MB final theme weight.
Most of the hosting companies have a limit of 5MB per file upload.
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Hello everyone, I'm looking for an advice on how to bundle heavy plugins with theme?
I would like to release a theme with VisualComposer(6.5MB) and LayerSlider (7MB) included. What's your preference? Do you put heavy plugins inside a theme and activate them using TMG or put them in a separate from theme folder and describe in documentation that these plugins needs to be installed manually? What can you recommend based on your experience?
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I think it's not that easy to feel the frustrations of any Author who has a family to feed. Many fellow authors are trying to make a living from here , working hard on their projects , creating something unique.
I sell themes here and have a kid to feed, but I think there is no easy solution and as web designers and authors we can accumulate and discuss ideas on how to make this place better.
It's amazing.
More items gets approved every day, but popularity of TemeForest growths too, so you have more traffic/attention to your item on the home page than it was few years before.
I believe on the home page "All new items" tab needs to be to killed. If they unfold all the tabs into separate sections it will make a trick. People who came to buy a WordPress theme don't really care about other CMS themes available, so there is no point to mess 'em together.
More items on the home page can be a good solution and it will not make website looks spammy if you do it right. Just take a look on Google Chrome Marketplace it looks great.
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We can place premium plugins inside a theme folder to be installed from there using TGM class. But theme folder size grows up to >20mb and that prevent a theme to be installed automatically from the admin panel. (Most hosting companies has max. 5mb per upload limit.)
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Feel like you deserve a gold star for eating organically? Turns out, patting yourself on the back for making good food choices might be turning you into a jerk in other areas of your life.
It's a form of social sanctimony, according to a new study published in Social Psychological & Personality Science. The findings are pretty damning for anyone who opts for organic foods:
... participants who were exposed to organic foods volunteered significantly less time to help a needy stranger, and they judged moral transgressions significantly harsher than those who viewed nonorganic foods. These results suggest that exposure to organic foods may lead people to affirm their moral identities, which attenuates their desire to be altruistic.
"There's a line of research showing that when people can pat themselves on the back for their moral behavior, they can become self-righteous," study author Kendall Eskine, assistant professor of the department of psychological sciences at Loyola University in New Orleans, told Today Health.
"I've noticed a lot of organic foods are marketed with moral terminology, like Honest Tea, and wondered if you exposed people to organic food, if it would make them pat themselves on the back for their moral and environmental choices."
For the study, Eskine split a group of 60 participants into three groups. He showed one group pictures of comfort foods (think cookies and cakes), while the second (control) group was shown images of neutral foods like oatmeal and mustard. The third group looked at pictures of clearly labeled organic food like spinach and apples.
Then each group was asked to rate a series of moral transgressions, like lawyers preying on emergency room victims.
"We found that the organic people judged much harder compared to the control or comfort food groups," Eskine told Today. "On a scale of 1 to 7, the organic people were like 5.5 while the controls were about a 5 and the comfort food people were like a 4.89."
Participants were also asked to estimate how much time they'd be willing to volunteer to help a stranger. Again, the organic group ranked lowest, volunteering just 13 minutes as opposed to 19 minutes for the control group and a pretty-generous 24 minutes for the comfort food group. (Cookies apparently give off love-thy-neighbor vibes.)
But why, exactly, does organic kale turn people into meanies? Blame the sense of self-congratulation.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's strategic nuclear arms treaty with Russia secured enough votes to clear a Republican procedural hurdle on Tuesday and headed toward approval in the Senate this week.
A motion to limit further debate on the treaty passed with 67 votes, the same number needed to secure Senate approval. A final vote on the accord was set for Wednesday after lawmakers debate a rash of last-minute amendments.
"This treaty will make America safer and restore our leadership in global efforts to stop nuclear proliferation," Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said.
But Senator John Kerry, who led the floor debate as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, cautioned: "This is not over. We have to count every vote."
At least 12 Republicans have said that they will vote with Democrats to approve the pact, which would give Obama his third major victory on Capitol Hill in less than a week.
He earlier won repeal of the U.S. ban on gays serving openly in the military and passage of an $858 billion deal with Republicans to extend expiring tax cuts and spur economic growth.
The treaty, which would cut strategic atomic weapons deployed by each country to no more than 1,550 within seven years, was signed by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in April.
It is a centerpiece of Obama's bid to "re-set" relations with Russia, which has been increasingly cooperative on issues related to U.S. national security, from curbing Iran's nuclear program to the war in Afghanistan.
Republican opponents of the accord, angered by the their inability to stop the march toward passage, charged the Obama administration had negotiated a bad treaty that let Russia limit U.S. missile defense options when the real strategic threat was not Moscow but states like North Korea and Iran.
"Nothing that he has done has convinced me that he is committed to missile defense," Senator Lindsey Graham told a news conference, saying Obama was effectively "giving the Russians a veto" over its missile defense plans.
The Senate's top two Republicans -- Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip Jon Kyl -- have announced they will vote against START, saying lawmakers haven't had enough time to fully consider the treaty.
But the chamber's third-ranking Republican, Lamar Alexander, joined Democrats on Tuesday in agreeing to end debate and move to approval of the pact.
"I will vote to ratify the New Start Treaty ... because it leaves our country with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to kingdom come, and because the president has committed to an $85 billion, 10-year plan to make sure that those weapons work," Alexander declared in a Senate speech.
Alexander's state of Tennessee is home to one of the nuclear facilities that will receive billions of dollars in modernization funding under an agreement worked out between lawmakers and the White House.
Political analysts say Senate rejection of the treaty would be a major setback to warming ties between the Russia and the United States, giving ammunition to Russian hawks who oppose the thaw in relations with Washington.
Collapse of the pact would also inflict political damage on Medvedev, who has embraced Obama's efforts to improve relations and stepped up Russian support for U.S. efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear program.
There has been far less public or political debate over the treaty in Russia. The Russian State Duma has yet to approve the accord and Medvedev has made clear that parliament should not ratify the treaty until U.S. Senate approval is certain.
Konstantin Kosachyov, the pro-Kremlin chairman of the international affairs committee, said Russian lawmakers would carefully examine the U.S. Senate's resolution of ratification and other declarations before proceeding with their own vote, which could conceivably be held this year.
(Additional reporting by Steve Gutterman in Moscow and Richard Cowan and Donna Smith in Washington; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Anthony Boadle)
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BC grew in sub numbers more than any other period in wow. Not convenient enough for your sorry argument? Too bad,so sad! With the arterial bleed of subs the fastest it's ever been, it shows that no matter how easy things get, it isn't enough to keep people.
Stage 2 was opened today for me but it was the exact same old quests
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Draenor EU got to stage 2 a little while before midnight and is now at 1%.
"Reminds me of a dog, you stare at it while it's playing outside... Running around in a circle, then stopping up, wagging with a wide "grin". Jumping around until you call for the dog, then it lowers its tail because it think it's done something bad... And then you throw the ball, seeing the tail go straight into the air in bliss! ^^" - Gehco
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When Dath rolled over, there were two additional dailies offered at the alliance beach head. One standard, plus an end daily boss kill with the usual reward. Once they were completed, Jaina offered the scenario to open up the new quest hub.
Once the scenario was complete, the stage 2 dailies were offered. It was late, so I didn't continue then.
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I'm so confused. I went to do my dailies and was given the scenario bit and did the pvp dailies. So I can't do the previous ones at all now?
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Stormrage was 6% in P2 when I last looked
US-Azralon (Brazilian Server) Stage 2 - 6% - 49% Horde Participation
Stage 2 unlocks, you do a few new dailies, and then go back to doing the same ones from stage 1. Lazy I tells ya! lol. Yes, I know it does rotate or it's RNG based etc. Still, it's lazy.
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It seems both factions need to reach Stage 2 to be presented with the option for PVP/PVE dailies. Alliance on my server is still on Stage 1 and I didn't get any quests for PVP/PVE before running my Stage 2 dailies.
Edit: Surely enough after Alliance reached Stage 2 I got the daily to chose between PVE and PVP. Cool thing is that I get to do a second set of dailies today.
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Roger's post highlights something important about the mindset of the affirmative-action zealots. It's obvious that they look at the world in a groupthink, tribalistic way, demanding that each discrete group have its quota of "representatives" on campus. What we see from the Chronicle piece is that they assume that that's the way the rest of us think, too. They evidently believe that, in Michigan for example, white voters who supported Proposition 2 did so only because they figured that passage would mean more white kids would be admitted — a win for the white tribe. It would undoubtedly surprise the BAMN types to know that few if any of the opponents of racial preferences hold our views because we think we're helping "our" group.


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Waiting for financial stability: Election won't end investor worries about Egypt
Economic issues - corruption and poverty - were high on the list of protesters' complaints during the Arab Spring and the subsequent uncertainty has worsened the economic position of the Middle East's most populous nation, says Una Galani
May 22, 2012 3:27 by Reuters
The presidential election won't end investors' worries about Egypt. Economic issues – corruption and poverty – were high on the list of protesters' complaints during the Arab Spring and the subsequent uncertainty has worsened the economic position of the Middle East's most populous nation. But the leading candidates in the first round of landmark elections on Wednesday haven't offered many clear economic proposals.
Hardline Islamists candidates have been disqualified from the race. The field of qualified hopefuls is now led by moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, liberal former foreign minister Amr Moussaand the Muslim Brotherhood's official candidate Mohamed Mursi. All three support a market-leaning economy, and promise to stamp out corruption and to reform energy subsidies, which eat up 20 percent of the budget.
Abol Fotouh and Moussa also speak of a more progressive tax system and of increased spending on health and education. Moussa is in favour of borrowing more to kick-start the economy. But it isn't clear how these aspirations will be realised.
There's also strong support for Ahmed Shafiq. The former air force commander, briefly prime minister during the last days of the Mubarak regime, is seen as the army's favourite. He hasn't said much about the economy.
In theory, Egypt could afford higher social spending without adding to a fiscal deficit forecast by the International Monetary Fund at 10 percent of GDP in 2012 if it stamps out deep-rooted corruption and enacts subsidy reforms. The IMF's conditions for aid typically encourage such changes.
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At least to tape the opening episodes of "The Amazing Race," 36-year-old Ephraim Salaam doesn't have to go too far to work from home.
The Studio City resident has lived locally with his wife Renece, and their son, Rasheed, and the opening sections will be shot at the CBS Radford Studios lot. You can follow the fun with him directly on his Twitter at @ephraimsalaam.
Also, two members of the Los Angeles Kings Ice Crew, a father and daughter from Laguna Niguel and cousins from Los Angeles were among the 22 contestants named today by CBS for the 23rd season of "The Amazing Race."
The teams will travel through four continents, nine nations and cover more than 35,000 miles. The challenges contestants will face include paragliding in Chile and driving Formula One race cars in Abu Dhabi.
The teams include 22-year-old Allison "Ally" Mello and 25-year-old Ashley Covert, members of the Los Angeles Kings Ice Crew; Dr. Hoskote Venkatesh, a 60-year-old emergency room physician and his 27-year-old daughter Naina, a fitness instructor; and Leo Temory, a 26-year-old entrepreneur and restaurateur from Los Angeles and his 26-year-old cousin Jamal Zadran, the CEO and owner of the Zadran Investment Group.
"Our parents came from here from Afghanistan with nothing and we look at them and they've managed to create successful lives for us, so it's in our blood to be competitive," Temory said.
Naina Venkatesh described herself as "very hot-headed."
"I don't take anything lying down," she said.
Mello said she and Covert are "girly girls" who "love to get glammed up, but we're also just athletes" as they clean the ice at Staples Center.
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-- Former Houston Texans and San Diego State players Chester Pitts II and Ephraim Salaam. Salaam saw Pitts, who attended the California Academy of Mathematics and Sciences in Carson, which did not have a football team, bagging groceries at a Ralphs store, was impressed by his size and persuaded him to be a walk-on player at San Diego State.
Pitts went out to be a second-round draft choice of the Houston Texans and play nine seasons in the NFL as a guard. Salaam was an offensive tackle who played 13 seasons in the NFL. Pitts, 33, lives in Missouri City, Texas, is an analyst for "Texans Insider" and an executive consultant for ZT Wealth and Altus HMS. Salaam, 36, lives in Studio City and is a co-host of "Fox Sports Live."
-- Jason Case, a 33-year-old owner of a snowplow company from Attleboro, Mass., and his 29-year-old girlfriend from Providence, R.I., Amy Diaz, a social media manager;
-- Nicole "Nicky" Getz and Kim DeJesus, both wives of Major League Baseball players. Getz, a 27-year-old who splits time between Kansas City, Mo. and Troy Mich., is training to be a Pilates instructor and his married to Chris Getz, a second baseman with the Kansas City Royals. DeJesus is married to David DeJesus, an outfielder acquired Friday by the Tampa Bay Rays;
-- Travis Jasper, a 43-year-old, and his 39-year-old wife Nicole, both emergency room physicians from Atlanta;
-- Rowan Joseph, 56, and Shane Partlow, 47, theater performers from Charlotte, N.C. who call themselves the "Queens of Bingo";
--Brandon Squyres, a contractor, and his childhood friend, Adam Switzer, described as an "eco-friendly farmer." Both are 34-year-olds from Chico;
-- Timothy Sweeney, a 32-year-old who works in sports marketing, and his 29-year-old former girlfriend, a fitness trainer and gym owner. Both live in Morristown, N.J.
-- Tim Wiyninger, 26, an oilfield plant operator, and his 25-year-old best friend Daniel "Danny" Merkey, an oilfield operator, both from Cordell, Okla.;
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Tim Tebow has been the subject of a couple of tabloid dustups since becoming a Jet, but so far the man himself has doggedly avoided saying or doing anything to fuel the media storms - a downright Eli-esque performance.
So, Tim, eight months in, how do you think you have been treated by the famously feisty New York media?
"It's a good question," he said Wednesday. "I was so open-minded about it that my mindset was ready for anything. So I felt prepared.
"I feel like I've built a relationship with a lot of the reporters who are here every day. I have tried to, at least. You get to know them a little bit. I try to tease them and make it more than just them asking me questions."
Has the experience been easier or more difficult than he expected? "I haven't viewed it as hard," he said. "I think they have to do their jobs so you understand that and try to help them as much as you can with it."
Tebow said he can't accurately assess how fair the coverage has been because he attempts to ignore it. ?
"I just try to stay in a little bubble, as hard as that is and as much as you hear stuff," he said.
"I've been very blessed in my career to play in some places where they have very passionate fans and great fan bases so you get a lot of attention. But it's the New York market, so it's obviously a little different than most."
Like back page headlines? "Yeah," he said, laughing. "That's different."
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The president of the 10-campus University of California system also weighed in on the growing fallout from Friday's incident at UC Davis, saying that he is "appalled" at images of students being doused with pepper spray and plans a far-reaching, urgent assessment of law enforcement procedures on all campuses.
"I implore students who wish to demonstrate to do so in a peaceful and lawful fashion. I expect campus authorities to honor that right," UC President Mark G. Yudof said. All 10 chancellors would convene soon for a discussion "about how to ensure proportional law enforcement response to non-violent protest," he said.
Officials at UC Davis refused to identify the two officers who were place on administrative leave but one was a veteran of many years on the force and other "fairly new" to the department, the school's Police Chief Annette Spicuzza told The Associated Press. She would not elaborate further because of the pending probe.
Videos posted online of the incident clearly show one riot-gear clad officer dousing the line of protesters with spray as they sit in a line with their arms intertwined. Spicuzza told the AP that the second officer was identified during an intense review of several videos.
"We really wanted to be diligent in our research, and during our viewing of multiple videos we discovered the second officer," Spicuzza said. "This is the right thing to do."
Both officers were trained in the use of pepper spray as department policy dictates, and both had been sprayed with it themselves during training, the chief noted.
Meanwhile, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi said she has been inundated with reaction from alumni, students and faculty.
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Katehi also set a 30-day deadline for her school's task force investigating the incident to issue its report. The task force, comprised of students, staff and faculty, will be chosen this week. She earlier had set a 90-day timetable.
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On Saturday, the UC Davis faculty association called for Katehi's resignation, saying in a letter there had been a "gross failure of leadership." Katehi has resisted calls for her to quit.
"I am deeply saddened that this happened on our campus, and as chancellor, I take full responsibility for the incident," Katehi said Sunday. "However, I pledge to take the actions needed to ensure that this does not happen again. I feel very sorry for the harm our students were subjected to and I vow to work tirelessly to make the campus a more welcoming and safe place."
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While indigenous people and the government struggle to continue a meaningful dialogue, the Indigenous Federation of Madre de Dios (known as FENAMAD) has been objecting to the presence of Hunt Oil of Texas in the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (RCA), part of the 3.5 million-acre Block 76 oil concession located in the Madre de Dios region in southeastern Peru. FENAMAD contends that Hunt Oil could be playing indigenous communities against each other to gain access to their lands. "The current strategy of the US company Hunt Oil is to negotiate directly with the members of each native community and seek to divide them and provoke open confrontation among the brother indigenous people within each community," FENAMAD is saying in a memorandum.
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FENAMAD and other indigenous federations are insisting that foreign oil, gas, and mining companies must attain the free, prior, and informed consent from communities before they can enter any indigenous lands such as the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve. The right of free, prior, and informed consent is a right of indigenous peoples established under international law, and requires free access to full information (including independent analysis of project proposals), adequate time for a community decision free of pressure and coercion, and the option to reject a proposal--or accept under certain conditions.
The failure of oil, gas, and mining companies to gain appropriate access to communities with natural resources limits Peru's ability to benefit from revenues it needs to help the approximately 50 percent of its population now living in poverty.
The legislature gave Peru's President Alan Garcia broad powers to promote economic competitiveness through decrees last year, saying it was necessary to adapt legislation to comply with new requirements of the Peru-US Free Trade Agreement. Indigenous federations and many civil society organizations have strongly protested the possible consequences of these laws for the Amazon rainforest and indigenous lands, as well as the fact that they were adopted without transparency or genuine consultation. Some of these legislative decrees were rescinded following violent confrontations last June, but many are still in force.
Oxfam America's campaign—called the Right to Know, Right to Decide—aims to arm local citizens with the information they need to weigh the costs versus the benefits and decide whether to provide consent for the projects to move forward.
"There is a potential for this confrontation to escalate to violence," says Emily Greenspan, Oxfam America's policy advisor who monitors oil and gas projects in Peru's Amazon. "Companies seeking to operate in any areas need to attain the free, prior, and informed consent of communities. Those that appear to be forcing their way into communities risk serious conflict, as we have seen in the recent past."
]]>In 2007, the Chinese consortium Xiamen Zijin Tongguan Investment Development Co Ltd took over the British mining company and transferred its headquarters from London to Hong Kong. The injunction, applied in June 2009, prohibited the company from disposing of its assets. If courts in the United Kingdom find Monterrico Metals to be responsible for the human rights violations inflicted on the farmers, it will be required to pay adequate compensation to the injured individuals and the communities to which they belong.
Oxfam International in Peru welcomes the British High Court's decision. In Lima, Javier Aroca, coordinator of Oxfam International's Extractive Industries Program in South America, expressed his satisfaction with the verdict issued on October 16, 2009. "This is an important step forward in the defense of human rights in Peru. It establishes a precedent and acknowledges the abuse to which the citizens who expressed their opposition to the expansion of mining in their communities were subjected", he explained.
In August 2005, 27 men and two women were detained and held for three days at the Rio Blanco mine site in a remote area of northern Peru. They had been protesting against the development of the mine, which is the major asset of Monterrico Metals. According to their witness statements, the unarmed protestors were held against their will and subjected to physical and psychological torture allegedly by the Peruvian police, mine employees, and mine security guards. One farmer died.
Attempts to seek justice through the Peruvian courts have been slow and difficult. In March of this year, Peruvian prosecutors accused the police of torture, but cleared the mining company and private security firm Forza of wrongdoing. Thirty-one claimants, including all of the alleged victims held at the mine site, are now pursuing their case in the English courts, arguing that the company must have known of the conditions in which they were being detained, but failed to take steps to prevent or end their ordeal. Oxfam's partner organization, FEDEPAZ (the Ecumenical Foundation for Development and Peace), together with the CNDDHH (Peru's National Human Rights Coordinating Committee) filed the complaint on behalf of the victims and has been providing them with legal assistance in this case. FEDEPAZ said in a statement that this injunction confirming the freezing of Monterrico Metals' assets constitutes an unprecedented achievement in the fight against impunity and marks an extremely important step toward the goal of achieving justice for the victims.
Oxfam soon will be releasing two video reports about this case.
]]>De Echave's remarks came during a conference held by Oxfam America and the Revenue Watch Institute in Washington, DC titled "From Conflict to Consensus: Extractive Industry Transparency in Latin America." The conference included speakers from citizen organizations in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru, as well as the Peruvian Ambassador to the US Luis Valdivieso and Anwar Ravat, the World Bank's manager of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative.
Patricia Diaz, Oxfam America's program officer in South America following the hydrocarbon industry, says conflicts erupt in Peru and other countries as "communities express frustration with what they perceive to be significant social and environmental costs associated with extractive industries, and only limited social benefits. These conflicts not only destabilize Peru but create a difficult operating environment for American and other companies." She also said that conflicts flare up when mines and pipelines are set up without the free, prior, and informed consent of local people.
Oxfam America and Revenue Watch Institute are advocating for governments and companies to disclose payments made for oil, gas, and mining projects as a means to build trust and reduce conflicts. Citizens would be able to see how much money their government receives from companies, and if they are getting a fair share of revenue devoted to their communities. Diaz says this information would help avoid conflicts such as the one seen in the Tacna and Moquegua regions of Peru last year, when the government altered mining royalty payments, setting off protests by 20,000 people resulting in three deaths. "More information on the mining revenues that each region would be receiving could have helped to avert this conflict," she said.
A few days after the Washington event, and after months of pressure from Oxfam America and others, the Inter-American Development Bank formally endorsed EITI. In the U.S. Congress, Diaz and others also held a briefing to urge action on proposed legislation to require extractive industry revenue disclosure. If enacted, the law would require companies subject to US Securities and Exchange Commission rules to disclose payments to governments. "Civil society in Peru would have a key tool for ensuring that these payments ultimately benefit the local communities most affected by mining and hydrocarbon projects," Diaz said in Washington. "And US companies and consumers would benefit through better operating environments and steady access to the raw materials you depend on."
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]]>Newmont, the largest US-based mining company, agreed to the review in 2007 following allegations of serious rights abuses by police and private security forces hired to protect the mine. Among other recommendations, the review calls on the company to more rigorously investigate human rights abuses, disclose contracts with police forces, consider severing ties with a private security contractor, and promote greater dialogue with local communities.
"This report contains a number of important recommendations for addressing ongoing human rights problems at Yanacocha," said Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America. "Given the current tensions around mining projects in Peru, we urge Newmont to take immediate action to implement these recommendations."
The report is the result of a two-year mediation process between Newmont and Oxfam America under the auspices of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, a global initiative bringing together mining and oil companies, governments, and nongovernmental groups. Newmont and Oxfam entered the mediation after Oxfam filed a complaint over abuses by security forces at Yanacocha in three separate incidents throughout 2006-2007. These included the fatal shooting of a local farmer involved in protests at the mine and the surveillance and harassment of members of a local human rights and environmental group.
Peru has been hit by a recent wave of protests around mining and oil projects. According to government estimates, there are more than 70 active conflicts at mine sites in various parts of the country, some of which have turned violent. Tensions reached a boiling point in early June when actions by the national police to quell protests by indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon, who were protesting government decrees designed to open up more land to mining and oil operations, resulted in a tragic loss of lives and a large number of wounded police officers and indigenous peoples.
"Newmont can help reduce the level conflict in Peru by implementing these recommendations," said Keith Slack, extractive industries program manager at Oxfam America. "Doing so would be an important confidence building measure among local community members affected by mining operations."
The report recommends that Newmont more vigorously implement the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, which include ensuring that security forces employed by companies do not have a history of human rights abuse. The report further calls on the company to review the results of psychological examinations of all security personnel before employing them at the mine.
"This is a critical first test of the complaints mechanism of the voluntary principles," noted Slack. "Newmont's compliance with these recommendations is important for the continued credibility of the initiative."
This report follows a previous independent review of Newmont's community relationship management practices, the results of which were released in March. Oxfam encourages Newmont to continue taking leadership in this type of review process and to fully implement the resulting recommendations to improve relationships with local communities near mining projects.
]]>At least 30 people have been killed in recent weeks in violent confrontations between indigenous protestors and police. The overturn of these decrees now sets the stage for dialogue. Shortly after congress rescinded them, President Alan Garcia delivered a speech in which he said that his government should have included indigenous people in discussions about the decrees before he issued them.
The government of Peru is now initiating a commission to start a dialogue with indigenous people, and will include Oxfam's partner AIDESEP, which represents a highly diverse group of indigenous organizations from all over the Amazon region.
"Oxfam hopes this dialogue initiative will be an important first step toward lasting solutions based on indigenous peoples rights and ensuring strong environmental regulation of extractive activities in the Amazon," said Frank Boeren, Oxfam America's Deputy Director in South America.
]]>Demonstrations in the northern Peruvian town of Bagua began in late April, when indigenous organizations began protesting over the content of a set of legislative decrees justified by the Peruvian government as part of the United States-Peru Free Trade Agreement (US-Peru FTA). The national police's action to quell the protests resulted in a tragic loss of lives and a large number of wounded police officers and indigenous peoples.
Indigenous federations and many civil society organizations claim the new legislative decrees could have detrimental consequences for the Amazon rainforest and indigenous land rights, and were passed without transparency or genuine consultation with indigenous communities. This is an apparent contradiction to US-Peru FTA commitments as well as a direct violation of ILO Convention 169. This convention, ratified by the Peruvian government in 1993, grants indigenous communities the right to be consulted on issues affecting them.
"Oxfam calls on the Peruvian government and indigenous organizations to end the use of violence," said Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America. "By clarifying that concerns raised by indigenous communities do no conflict with Peru's obligations under the US-Peru FTA, the US government can help foster a mutually beneficial resolution."
On June 10, the Peruvian Congress temporarily suspended two of these legislative decrees, numbers 1090 and 1064.
"The Peruvian Congress has taken an important first step by suspending these decrees, but much more needs to be done to bring an end to this conflict. The US government can help by fostering a solution through dialogue, not force," said Offenheiser.
With the most recent tragic events and the possibility of more violence—especially now that the Peruvian government has communicated its intention to clear protesters in other areas of the Amazon—the US government must act quickly to work with Peru to address the concerns about these legislative decrees, and to clarify what relation, if any, these decrees have to compliance with US-Peru FTA.
"We strongly urge the US government to help bring an end to this crisis by supporting a dialogue that includes views of indigenous communities and protects the human rights of these citizens as guaranteed by national and international law," said Offenheiser.
]]>With some champions in Congress and support from the White House, we're hoping to see domestic legislation that not only fines companies who pollute, but also uses some of these funds to help affected communities build their resilience. If we are successful domestically, we can lay the groundwork for a global deal at the UN Climate Change Conference this December—an agreement that will create a more hospitable climate for us all.
Also in this issue: A force of peace in Peru; Rebuilding in Bangladesh; Oxfam America's new role in Darfur.
]]>Last month, Newmont released the results of an independent review, which provides information about the company's community relationships and important recommendations for improving operations on the ground. The review, the first of its kind by a major mining company, came at the request of shareholders, led by New York-based Christian Brothers Investment Services, concerned about protests and environmental problems at Newmont's mining projects around the world. The company will formally present the results of the report to shareholders at the annual meeting.
"We commend Newmont for conducting a critical assessment of their community relationships. As shareholders gather this week, plans for urgent action to improve relations with the communities living near its operations should be at the top of the agenda," said Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America.
Recommendations from the report include handling community conflicts at an earlier stage, holding management accountable for community relations, and establishing effective grievance processes at all sites. The report indentifies problems with Newmont's community interaction at several locations, including sites in Ghana and Peru.
Nearly 10,000 villagers, mainly poor farmers, were displaced by the Newmont's Ahafo mine in Ghana. The report identified the long-term success of the resettlement as one of the greatest risks confronting the project and called on Newmont to actively monitor the implementation of resettlement. Newmont and the World Bank (IFC) will be conducting an audit of the resettlement program this year. Oxfam urges Newmont to make the audit process transparent and participatory.
Newmont's Yanacocha mine in Peru has been the site of repeated protests and violence in recent years. In 2007, local mining activists were the targets of harassments and death threats.
"The report identified an atmosphere of fear and intimidation among local residents at the Yanacocha mine, who worry about speaking out against the company out of fear of harassment by the mine's security forces," said Offenheiser. "It is very troubling that people are afraid to peacefully express their concerns. Newmont must address this situation immediately."
Communities affected by mining projects should have a role in decision-making about how the project will affect their lands and livelihoods. The report recommends an action plan that includes clarification of Newmont's commitment to the principle of free, prior and informed consent for communities.
"Newmont's endorsement of the principle of free, prior and informed consent for communities would be an important step forward," said Offenheiser. "The key now is to engage with local communities and apply this principle to company practice. We are pleased that Newmont's board of directors has accepted the report's analysis and recommendations and directed management to engage with affected communities on the report's findings."
The Newmont report also highlighted community concern about lack of access to information about the revenues the company pays to local and national governments, leaving communities unable to hold their governments accountable for how mining revenues are used.
"Newmont has been a leader in committing to greater transparency and can help address community concerns about revenue sharing by recommitting to disclose all payments made to host governments," said Offenheiser. "Endorsing mandatory public disclosure policies like the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act would be an important first step."
Oxfam advocated passage of the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act, legislation that would require all mining, oil, and gas companies registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose the payments made to foreign governments. The bill, which was introduced by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) in the 110th Congress, is expected to be reintroduced shortly.
]]>In the arid north of the country, where the government has prioritized copper mining, farmers and copper mines struggle to co-exist. Both need water, but the major copper mines, with support from the government and plenty of capital, are buying up the water rights. Farmers, many poor and without powerful friends in the government, are seeing their rivers and streams dry up—or worse, become so polluted they can't use the water.
In 2004, the 2,000 residents of Caimanes, a remote town in Chile's IV Region, faced an additional challenge: a massive tailings dam Pelambres Mining Company built on their doorstep. The dam, which collects waste rock from dissolved copper, would allow the Las Pelambres mine to continue operating for an additional 28 years. And the new tailings dam, when full, will hold 1.7 billion tons of waste.
Despite this huge new source of pollution to their water sources, local people had few outlets to defend their rights. Chile has no provisions in its laws on mining that require any citizen participation in approving or authorizing any expansion of existing mining operations.
But farmers in Caimanes and several other villages continued to voice their concerns that the dam would destroy an entire valley and cut off their supply of water. They said that acid will drain out of the dam, polluting what water that remains, and endangering the one stream that provides their town with water. Tailings dams are also usually a source of dust particles containing heavy metals—these can blow into town and poison people and their animals.
Caimanes is in the poorest region of Chile. Farmers there are concerned about their ability to continue to earn a living, but are also aware that a major earthquake could collapse the dam. This has happened before: In 1965 an earthquake spilled 10 million cubic meters (350 million cubic feet) of mine waste out of a similar holding area and killed 200 people.
In 2004 community members in Caimanes began working with the Environmental Oversight Office (the Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente or FIMA, a Chilean NGO). They gathered signatures on petitions and filed them in legal courts and requested an injunction to halt construction of the tailings dam. In 2005 the Caimanes community group representing farmers in the area alleged that the permit process for the dam had not been followed properly and that there were archeological sites that were being damaged in the construction. In 2007 a local court in the nearby city of Los Vilos ordered that the mine company halt construction of the tailings dam.
The Las Pelambres mine company appealed the 2007 court order, and the decision put responsibility on a government water commission. This commission had already approved a permit for the construction of the tailings dam, with limited participation from local farmers, so it allowed construction to continue. In 2008 the Chile's supreme court ruled that the right to water for the farmers affected by the tailings dam was being violated, and awarded each of the farmers $40,000. In December 2008 the company announced that it had finished the tailings dam.
Oxfam America provided grant funding for FIMA to help the citizens of Caimanes to defend their rights in court, and raise awareness about their situation among people in Chile. FIMA advocated for a hearing at the Latin American Water Tribunal in 2007, which issued a statement calling for the dam construction to be stopped and the citizens compensated. FIMA has also published reports about the situation in Caimanes and prompted considerable coverage of this case in the international media.
Although the citizens of Caimanes did win compensation and a favorable judgment in court, they did not succeed in blocking the dam construction. "Unfortunately for the people, there are no winners," says a report published by FIMA, The Battle for Water in the Pupío Valley. "This compensation will not make up for the destruction of the quality of life in the valley." FIMA says in the report that the people achieved a "legal and economic victory, but a social and environmental defeat."
Nevertheless, the case sets an important precedent and provides an example to the global mining industry of how responsible companies should not operate.
]]>Since 2006, Peru has seen an impressive annual economic growth rate of more than six percent. Mining has been the main driver of this impressive growth with copper production doubling and gold production up 30 percent over the past five years. Peru's mineral wealth has attracted investment from a wide range of foreign mining companies, including 13 of 17 members of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). Mining exports surpassed $17 billion in 2007, amounting to 62 percent of the country's total exports.
"In the midst of this economic windfall, Peru's regulatory infrastructure remains weak and under-resourced," said Raymond C. Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America. "Forty percent of all Peruvians remain in poverty; in the mineral-rich Andes region, poverty rates exceed 70 percent."
Since large scale resource extraction generates relatively few jobs, mining benefits must trickle down to communities through government programs that redistribute revenues. In Peru, this redistribution process has proven highly problematic because of limited governmental capacity to regulate the industry. Currently, the Ministry of Energy and Mines is tasked with both promoting mining investment and enforcing social and environmental regulations—a problematic conflict of interest. The new Ministry of the Environment should assume this role to regulate mining and strengthen the independence of this ministry.
"There is a justifiable sense of frustration among the Peruvian people impacted by mining who have not reaped the benefits of resource wealth generated from their lands," said Offenheiser. "They have not seen these revenues translate into health services, education, or infrastructure to improve their everyday lives."
In many areas around large-scale mining operations, this frustration has lead to conflict and violence. The Peruvian government's public defender's office, Defensoria del Pueblo, recently counted more than 70 active conflicts around mining operations spread across the country.
"Communities do not trust the government to address their concerns and protect them from pollution and other harms that mining can cause," said Offenheiser. "They're left believing organized protesting is the only option for making their voices heard."
The Peruvian government has cracked down on social protests and criminalized activities defined "anti-mining" for fear that local protests could potentially disrupt foreign investment in mining. To make matters worse, some mining companies have exacerbated social tensions by using private security forces that have been accused of violating human rights.
Several steps, outlined in a new paper from Oxfam America, need to be taken by government, mining companies, international donors and civil society groups to reduce conflict and preserve the long term viability of the mining sector in Peru. These include recognizing the right of community consent; condemnation of all threats and harassment; strengthening government capacity and independence; and full disclosure of information on the social, environmental and economic impacts of mining.
At a minimum, mining companies should actively participate in Peru's Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) process, a global initiative designed to promote disclosure of revenue payments by oil, gas and mining companies. Members of the US Congress can help take this a step further by supporting legislation to make revenue disclosure mandatory. The Extractive Industry Transparency Disclosure (EITD) bill was introduced in the House and Senate in 2008. This legislation, expected for reintroduction in 2009, would require all oil, gas, and mining companies registered with the SEC to disclose their payments to host countries and extend transparency as a truly global standard for company operations.
"By publishing what they pay to the government, mining companies could help communities hold the government accountable for ensuring local economic development," said Offenheiser.
International donors, like the International Finance Corporation, can support these efforts by insisting on transparency, backing government efforts to strengthen capacity, supporting civil society efforts to hold mining companies accountable for compliance with human rights and environmental standards, and helping the Peruvian government diversify its economy in order to the reduce the country's dependence on resource extraction.
"Acting with full transparency and involving affected communities in the process from the start will go a long way to address the underlying cause of conflict," said Offenheiser. "This would open lines of communication that could foster the long term viability of the industry and the ability of mining to contribute to the development in Peru."
]]>Oxfam America is joining other groups in Peru in calling for a complete investigation of these events, and for the individuals responsible for these crimes to be brought to justice.
"We are requesting that the Public Ministry [public prosecutor] and the police carry out an investigation," said Javier Aroca, coordinator of Oxfam International's extractive industries program. "It is essential that these accusations be investigated and that those responsible are punished to ensure that the laws of our country are enforced and that the fundamental rights of our citizens are protected. In the future, we must be able to attain peaceful solutions to social conflicts."
In January 2009 the National Human Rights Coordinator released a report alleging that 28 community members, who were concerned that mining exploration was being carried out on community farm land without their permission, were kidnapped and detained for three days. They had been marching to the mine site, where the Majaz Mining company (now known as Rio Blanco Copper) was exploring for copper deposits. The community members came from Segunda y Cajas and Yanta in Piura, and Jaén, and San Ignacio in the neighboring department of Cajamarca. According to the report, the march was peaceful—no participants carried any weapons apart from the machetes and whips customarily used when traveling by foot in the rough Huancabamba mountains. According to local leaders, they intended to go and speak with the representatives of the mining company, since other attempts to discuss their concerns had failed.
According to the report published by the National Human Rights Coordinator and FEDAPAZ, the community delegation of approximately 400 people was camped out the night before their planned arrival at the mine site when they were attacked by helicopters shooting tear gas. Soon after, police entered their camp and burned their equipment, food, and medicine. The next day the group was attacked again when it arrived at the Majaz mining camp, one person was killed, 40 were injured, and 28 were kidnapped and detained inside the mining camp. The National Human Rights Coordinator report says the detained individuals were subjected to "diverse forms of physical and psychological torture. As well as being savagely beaten…they were kept hooded, sprayed with tear gas and blindfolded, with no warm clothes in spite of the low temperatures." They were released after three days.
The kidnapped community members made formal legal complaints, but the public prosecutor in the region did not conduct an investigation. Instead, the government accused these individuals of terrorism, and they have been under police investigation. In June of 2008 the Human Rights Coordinator and FEDAPAZ filed a legal case in Piura against the police officers and employees of the security firm Forza who were working for the mine company. The suit also included the public prosecutor and medical examiner, who are alleged to have been aware of the kidnapping and torture, and failed to take proper legal action against the perpetrators.
In January of 2009 the national Human Rights Coordinator received photos taken during the three days in 2005 when the community members were detained at the mine site. The organization says the photographs, submitted anonymously, clearly verify the accounts of the detained individuals and have shocked many in the country.
The Prime Minister and Minister of Justice have issued statements urging a thorough investigation of the incidents in 2005. However the police still have not identified any of the officers involved.
"People living in a democracy should not be kidnapped, tortured, and persecuted just for expressing their opinion and raising their concerns," says Oxfam's Javier Aroca. "We need our institutions to create avenues for dialogue so we can avoid conflict and ensure our laws are respected."


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