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Article

4 Apr 2015

Author:
Rick Feneley, Sydney Morning Herald

200 girls and women raped: now 11 of them win better compensation from the world's biggest gold miner

Eleven women and girls who were raped, gang-raped or violently molested in the Papua New Guinea Highlands have reached an out-of-court settlement with [Barrick Gold], having refused to accept the "insulting" compensation paid to 120 fellow victims...The Porgera community says security guards and mobile police at the mine have raped more than 200 women and girls over the past two decades…The 11 women were preparing to sue Barrick Gold in the United States, convinced they would be unable to find justice in PNG…EarthRights International had been scheduled to file a lawsuit late last month in Las Vegas…But the women reached an undisclosed settlement which is likely to be well above the 21,320 kina ($10,430) they say Barrick offered most of them. The settlement also covered the families of three people allegedly killed in violence at the mine.

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