Update your Cookie Settings to use this feature.
Click 'Allow All' or just activate the 'Targeting Cookies'
By continuing you accept Avaaz's Privacy Policy which explains how your data can be used and how it is secured.
Got it

Stop the bloody gold mine

Please check your email to validate your email address.
Close
Well done! Your profile has been updated.
Close
Close

Just to be sure

Would you like to receive Avaaz emails and agree that Avaaz may use your data and campaign actions to tell you about other campaigns, fundraisers and events?
Would you like to receive Avaaz emails and agree that Avaaz may use your data and campaign actions to tell you about other campaigns, fundraisers and events?
Sign the petition

To World Bank President Jim Yong Kim:

We call on you to cancel World Bank funding of the Conga gold-mining project in Peru, which is being forced through at gunpoint at the cost of innocent lives. Initiated with inadequate public consultation and environmental assessment, this mega-mine threatens Peru’s waterways with toxic chemical pollution. We urge you to demonstrate the Bank’s commitment to supporting the poor and dispossessed by canceling funding and helping to stop the Conga project. 
Enter your email address:
By continuing you agree to receive Avaaz emails. Our Privacy Policy will protect your data and explains how it can be used. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Stop the bloody gold mine
Communities in Peru are standing up to police bullets and brutality to stop a toxic gold mine disaster. The World Bank is an important financier of the project and holds the political key to end the violence: they can stop supporting the bloody Conga mine.

Already, Peru’s police have killed five demonstrators in an effort to ensure that an American mining company can turn a billionaire profit. But residents have been protesting for months to save their water, fearing this mine will destroy their rivers and habitat with toxic chemicals. The World Bank is financing this project, while it's brand-new President hopes to mark his tenure with projects that support the poor. Together, we can convince him to cut the financing of the Conga mine as his first big move to support the people and not big business.

Right now, this mega mine is literally being forced on people at gunpoint. We have no time to lose -- let’s call on the new World Bank president Jim Yong Kim to stop financing a bloody gold mine that people despise, while cleaning the Bank's reputation. Sign now and share this campaign with all your friends.
Posted:

Tell Your Friends