Barrick Gold

Report questions Barrick Gold memorandum over Pascua Lama project

whit — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:10:48 +0100

Report questions legitimacy of memorandum between Barrick Gold and Diaguita indigenous communities

Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (OLCA) – MiningWatch Canada release – http://www.miningwatch.ca/news/report-questions-legitimacy-memorandum-be...

Santiago/Ottawa – While Barrick has been offloading assets and reducing operational costs in order to improve its standing with shareholders, the social costs of the Pascua Lama project in Chile’s Huasco Valley continue to grow.

Despite company statements that comm

PNG - UN told of mining industry human rights violations in Pacific region

whit — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:23:57 +0100

Pacific people experiencing cultural genocide at the hands of the extractive industries

Call for UN Investigation into mechanisms to hold businesses, multi-nationals and extractive industries accountable for not only human rights violations but also criminal acts in Indigenous lands and against Indigenous Peoples

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 14th Session: Statement by Akali Tange Association and endorsed by the Pacific Caucus

We would like to begin our statement in addressing the fact that while we here at the United Nations talk of human rights violations in

Canada mining firm compensates Papua New Guinea women after alleged rapes

whit — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 12:19:55 +0100

Watchdog reported pattern of extreme sexual violence by security workers

11 tribal women said a previous ‘remedy framework’ for 137 women fell short

A Canada-based gold mining company is paying compensation to a group of tribal women and girls who allege they were assaulted and raped by police and security guards at the company’s mine in Papua New Guinea.

The 11 women, who were aged between 14 and in their 80s when the alleged crimes took place, are among 137 local Enga women and girls who had previously been compensated by Barrick Gold Corporation, after allegations of sexual

Barrick Gold facing multi-billion dollar claim by PNG landowners

whit — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:07:43 +0000

Sydney, Australia – Justice Foundation for Porgera (JFP), an entity which represents landowners in the Porgera region in north-western Papua New Guinea, has submitted a position statement to Barrick Gold and its subsidiary Barrick Niugini outlining irreparable losses as a result of social, economic and environmental damages caused by its Porgera gold mine.

PNG: Porgera Gold Mine Landowners claim $US4b from Barrick

whit — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:39:49 +0000

Barrick Niugini Limited’s intention to sell its 95% shares in the Porgera mine was a commercial decision and there was no need for landowners to know.

If Barrick only sold its shares in Porgera mine, the landowners would have been informed.

Out-of-Court Settlement Good for Some Tanzanian Villagers - But Many Others Hindered from Participation by Barrick's Grievance

whit — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:55:54 +0000

Oxford (UK) and Ottawa – Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) and MiningWatch Canada (MiningWatch) recognise the significance of the settlement, announced on Friday 6 February 2015, of claims brought by Tanzanian villagers alleging that African Barrick Gold (now Acacia Mining) and its subsidiary were liable, through complicity, for killing and injuring of locals at the North Mara mine by police guarding the mine. The claims, brought by leading law firm Leigh Day, were denied by the companies.

PNG - Rape Survivors Offered Business Remedy by Barrick Gold in Exchange for Waiving Legal Rights

whit — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:28:20 +0000

Survivors of Rape by Barrick Gold Security Guards Offered “Business Grants” and “Training” in Exchange for Waiving Legal Rights

Human rights advocates denounce Barrick’s reparations process in Papua New Guinea as inconsistent with international law and inadequate to remedy brutal rapes

Washington DC and Porgera, Papua New Guinea — Approximately 200 women who survived brutal rapes by Barrick Gold’s security guards in Papua New Guinea were asked to waive their legal rights in exchange for small “business grants” and “business training,” a reparations process that huma

PNG - Barrick Gold refuses to relocate villagers who suffer violence in response to 'illegal mining'

whit — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:01:38 +0100

This past July a young man was murdered deep in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea, and Canadians should care.

Why?

Why concern ourselves with this one act of violence in a far away corner of the Pacific, at a time when there is so much violence in the world?

After all, there is lots of other killing closer to home that could concern us, starting with the Ukraine (quiet for the moment) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). That latter group has even compelled U.S.

Villagers' Houses Burnt Down Again Near Barrick Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea

whit — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:09:07 +0100

Repeat of 2009’s Gross Human Rights Violations Follow Failed Resettlement Negotiations

While local Porgera leaders were tied up in fruitless negotiations with the company, Barrick actually got a restraining order to keep them from coming to the aid of their own people.

Ottawa – In a pre-dawn raid on Friday, June 6, Papua New Guinea (PNG) police Mobile Units evicted residents from Wingima village near Barrick’s Porgera gold mine and burnt down some 200 houses, according to reports from eye witnesses in Porgera as well as from local Member of Parliament Nixon Mangape.

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal: Session on the Canadian Mining Industry in Latin America

whit — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:17:48 +0100

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal: Session on the Canadian Mining Industry in Latin America

May 30 – Jun 1, 2014

Preliminary Verdict (Excerpt)

Montreal, Québec

This document is part of the preliminary verdict that was presented by the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) jury on Sunday, June 1, 2014.