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The EBRD’s (ir)responsible exit from the Amulsar gold mine project in Armenia

May 29, 2024

The engagement of the EBRD in supporting the Amulsar gold mine in Armenia in its early stages resulted in adverse environmental, social, economic, and human rights impacts. The EBRD terminated funding to the client and exited the project, but the harm remains unremedied.


International groups stand in solidarity with Armenian environmental and human rights defenders facing defamation and criminalisation

February 20, 2024

In recent months, Armenian human rights and environmental defenders and organisations have been facing defamatory attacks in local media. They are increasingly being targeted through defamation, smear campaigns, intimidation and criminalisation for their peaceful, legitimate human rights work.


Civil society groups urge the EBRD to rethink mining investments

September 20, 2023

Twenty civil society organisations from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Mongolia, Uganda, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as seven international environmental and human rights organisations, are calling on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to reconsider its approach to mining investments.


The Armenian National Platform of the EaP CSF is concerned about the Government’s intention to re-launch the Amulsar mine project

April 14, 2023

The most important news from Armenia on Telegram …


Scandal with Amulsar: Vardanyan aims at plundering Armenia

February 24, 2023

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 24. Ruben Vardanyan, the Russian billionaire of Armenian origin, having realized that his operations on barbaric …


Amulsar: Human Rights Violations and Environmental Negligence in the Search for Gold

June 28, 2022

This report sheds light on the human rights violations by the Armenian government and investors, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in relation to the Amulsar gold mine project.


Զգուշացում ՀՀ կառավարությանը․ Բեռնի կոնվենցիայի քարտուղարությունը՝ Ամուլսարի ծրագրի մասին

May 5, 2021

Հայկական բնապահպանական ճակատ նախաձեռնությունը հայտնում է․ «Էկոլուր կազմակերպությունն ու CEE Bankwatch-ը բողոք էին ներկայացրել Բեռնի …


As tensions reach a tipping point at Amulsar gold mine, what next for the EBRD?

August 20, 2020

In early August, Armenian protestors who had been blocking access continuously for the past two years to the controversial Amulsar gold mine were forcibly removed by the mine’s newly-hired security detail.


SLAPPd: the Armenian activists fighting a mining multinational’s lawsuits

June 22, 2020

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) are a form of often frivolous litigation used by corporations to intimidate and punish critics and silence their right to free speech. Lydian international, the tax haven-listed mining company, has repeatedly deployed the tactic against journalists and civil society as it presses forward with the Amulsar gold mine in Armenia, whilst the EBRD has stood by silently.


Legal challenges mount for Armenia gold mine as complaint filed to EU development lender

June 15, 2020

Yerevan – The beleaguered Amulsar gold mine in Armenia broke rules attached to two loans totalling EUR 11 million it received in 2017 and 2009 from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, alleges a new complaint from 23 people living near the project and Armenian and international civil society groups including CEE Bankwatch Network.


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