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17 Apr 2013

Porgera Joint Venture complaints mechanism for rape victims - MiningWatch concerns [& Barrick Gold responses]

In March 2013, MiningWatch Canada wrote to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights "to alert you to ...[concerns regarding] Barrick Gold['s]...non-judicial grievance mechanism to request that female victims of rape by security guards at Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine (PJV) in Papua New Guinea... Barrick [response:]...letter....to the UN High Commissioner dated 22 March [2013]... MiningWatch responded to Barrick's letter with...[a] letter to the High Commissioner, dated 2 April 2013...Barrick...sent the following materials in response: "Barrick corrects further false claims concerning Remediation Program at Porgera", Barrick Gold...[Letters to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights] from Dame Carol Anne Kidu, member of the review panel for the Porgera Remediation Program...; Arvind Ganesan, Human Rights Watch, re: "Inaccuracy in MiningWatch Canada letter on Barrick Gold's Porgera Gold Mine"...Ume Wainetti, National Convenor of Papua New Guinea Family And Sexual Violence Action Committee...

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Papua New Guinea: MiningWatch raises further concerns re whether remedy programme for rape victims at Barrick Gold's Porgera mine complies with human rights norms

Porgera Joint Venture complaints mechanism for rape victims - MiningWatch concerns