…[T]he settlement terms involving the 11 women represented by Earth Rights International are confidential. Therefore, Barrick is unable to offer anything in the way of comment on this matter...What we can say is that the Porgera Remedy Framework was established as a supplement to the formal justice sector and distinct from the existing site grievance mechanism already in place at the Porgera Joint Venture in Papua New Guinea…Earlier this year, it was determined that each claimant who had resolved their claims through the Framework would receive an additional 30,000 Kina in financial compensation. The additional amount was determined in conjunction with the independent experts that oversaw the implementation of the Framework. This was intended to broadly bring claimants who resolved claims under the Framework into line with the second set of claimants who settled their claims outside of the remediation framework…These additional payments were therefore made in the interests of fairness and equality for all claimants.