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Mining – Slow progress on extractive human rights
[A]re the...[Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights] delivering? Are mining sites free, or freer, of human rights abuses than they were before? The mining signatories all insist that the past dozen years have brought huge progress...The verdict outside the mining industry is not quite as unanimous. Images of striking miners being gunned down by state security forces in South Africa are still fresh in mind. The past few months have also witnessed violent clashes in the mining districts of Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ghana...[refers to AngloAmerican, AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick Gold, BG Group, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Freeport-McMoRan, Hess, Inmet Mining, Marathon Oil, Newmont, Occidental Petroleum, Rio Tinto, Shell, Statoil, Talisman, Total, G4S, Garda World]