Transnational Mining Corporations, the Environment, and Indigenous Communities Gedicks, Al author text articles 2015 eng born digital pp. 129-152 Brown Journal of World Affairs 1080-0786 22 no. 1 no. 129 152 The article focuses on the issue of human rights abuse of mining industries. Topics include the factors that cause the proliferation of mining activities on a global scale including the demands for metals as energy sources and increasing demands for metals due to economic expansion of some countries and the reports of social conflict and human rights abuse brought by the expansion of mining industries. Also highlighted are mining companies involved in genocide and human rights abuse. 10.26300/jtss-a249