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27 Oct 2015

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MiningWatch Canada

Lack of equity in settlements for victims of sexual assault at the Porgera Joint Venture gold mine in Papua New Guinea

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23 Sept 2015 -- MiningWatch is receiving reports through our local partner organizations in Porgera of increased tension and dissatisfaction among the 120 women who have accepted a remedy package from Barrick through the remedy mechanism that Barrick set up in Porgera to address harm suffered by victims of sexual assault by mine personnel…[C]an you please confirm or deny that this additional payment of some 30,000 Kina was made to the 120 women who participated in the remedy program. Additionally, if this information is correct, can you please explain why Barrick made this additional payment some six months after closing the remedy program and making public representations that the payment the 120 women had received through the remedy program – in return for waiving legal rights - had been fair and adequate?... Can you please explain why you would not provide the 120 women who participated in your remedy program the same amount of compensation for the sexual assaults that they endured that you provided the 11 women who were represented by ERI and who suffered similar harm?...