The human rights abuses attributed to Denverbased Newmont Mining Corporation extend as far as their openpit mining operations according to Ghanaian activist Richard AdjeiPoku who was in Boulder this month to address Global Green Grants Fund.
Trafficking of African women is thriving. In January Italian police smashed several human trafficking rings involving African and eastern European s and netted some 800 suspects. Outside Nigeria, other main sources of s for prostitution were the west Africa states of Cameroon, .
Companies Commit HumanRights Abuses in America, Too. ... Ghana, and Russia. The group met with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida and communities affected by surface mining in West ...
IMPACT OF MINING SECTOR INVESTMENT IN GHANA: A STUDY OF THE TARKWA MINING REGION (A DRAFT REPORT) PREPARED BY ... the ordinary Ghanaian in the mining communities and to the country as a whole, in the ... 4 Patricia Feeney, 1998, The Human Rights Implications o f Zambia's Privatisation Programme. 5
2. To find how contradiction of the laws can facilitate human rights violations in the case of mining communities. 3. How best States laws can harmonised with international human rights law to ensure protection of right to property and other human rights in the case of mining communities.
The human rights abuses attributed to Denverbased Newmont Mining Corporation extend as far as their openpit mining operations according to Ghanaian activist Richard AdjeiPoku who was in Boulder this month to address Global Green Grants.
It has been accepted for inclusion in Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking 2014 by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommonsUniversity of Nebraska Lincoln. Brandt, Steven, "Trafficking in Child Labor in Ghana and Senegal" (2014).Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking 2014. 11.
Canadian Mining Abuses in Africa. In recent years Canadian mining companies have engendered a great deal of violence across Africa. In 2008 Guinea's military killed three in a bid to drive away smallscale miners from SEMAFO's Kiniero mine in the southeast of the country. BBC Monitoring Africa reported that "the soldiers shot a woman at close range,...
As Ghana pursues foreign investment, there is an acute need to ensure that investment agreements integrate human rights concerns from the outset. The Ghana Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice could potentially play a role during the review processes of draft investment and trade agreements.
GHANA 2015 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . Ghana is a constitutional democracy with a strong presidency and a unicameral 275seat parliament. In 2008 the National Democratic Congress (NDC) won both the presidency and a small majority in parliament in an election that domestic and international observers deemed generally free and fair.
will have to develop a competitive mining regime based on greater economic equality, mutual benefit and in accordance with generally accepted notions of fairness. Key words: Ghana, Mining, Mineral Products, Impact, Economy Introduction Mining is the process of digging into the earth to extract naturally occurring minerals.
7 天前· As citizens of Ghana, we reiterate that we should not be denied access to information on any agreements relating to the proposed integrated bauxite mining development agenda for Ghana. Communities ...
Ghana omitting human rights abuse in extractive sector from UN report 09/23/2015 ... Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining Wacam, Care International Ghana, Northern Ghana .
the impact of smallscale mining on women and children in local communities (not involved in mining value chain). The methodology for the field research was provided by .
REVIEW: WITCHCRAFT ACCUSATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN AFRICA ... About 100 community members who killed them sat next to the bodies until a mortuary ... Ghana: Ghanaian woman burned to death for being a 'witch' David Smith in Johannesburg, Monday 29 November 2010 ...
The Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) which is a continuation of the SmallScale Gold. Mining Law, PNDC L 218 enacted in 1989 given the procedures of issuing a license to a smallscale. firm. It contain in Section 81 to 99 in the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.
Mining, communities and environment, prepared in 2004 by Oxfam America My publication concentrates—to a much greater extent—on the issues of human rights and the 1 Downing, Avoiding New Poverty: MiningInduced Displacement and Resettlement, IIED .
Companies Commit HumanRights Abuses in America, Too. Last year, the United Nations working group on business and human rights chose the for one of its four country missions, along with Mongolia, Ghana, and Russia. The group met with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida and communities affected by surface mining in West ia, among others.
Communities, Companies and Conflict in Zimbabwe Posted under: Toolkits, ... we are pleased to share a new report on the conflicts occurring between mining companies and their host communities in Zimbabwe. ... Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republic of .