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On 23 March, Ghana ratified the UN Minamata Convention on Mercury, which aims to protect workers from toxic liquid metal by reducing mercury use in artisanal and smallscale gold mining and protecting children from exposure. About 1 million people were working in Ghana''s gold mines, and nearby communities were often directly exposed to mercury.
Sep 10, 2018· The campaigns of Wacam and other NGOs on human rights abuses in the mining communities have contributed to the reduction of cases of human rights abuses in mining communities.
The Mining Industry in Ghana: A Blessing or a Curse Kwesi AmponsTawi, PhD ... for mining companies and communities (Wood, 1999). The historical importance of mining in the economic ... displacement and other human and civil rights abuses (Thomson Joyce 1997). This .
Nov 11, 2008· Recently, one of the effervescent human rights and environmental advocacy organisation in Ghana, WACAM celebrated its 10th birthday in Accra under the theme "A Decade of CommunityBased Mining Advocacy in Ghana – Challenges and Prospects."
A recent study by the Rev. Francis Perry Az, a priest from Ghana and a doctorallevel pastoral counselor, offers a clear and wideranging view into situations of child abuse in Ghana. Titled ...
Child Rights in Mining. Free the Slaves has built awareness about child rights in source communities that send children to work at mines. Many parents lack detailed knowledge about their roles and responsibilities in promoting child welfare, and there is a general lack of awareness about government resources to address child abuse.
Jun 13, 2013· Ghana: Mine Accident Highlights Risk to Children ... to regulate the country''s artisanal gold mining." Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 members of the community .
Sep 13, 2016· Africa''s natural resources are being appropriated by foreign private interests who are leaving a devastating trail of social, environmental and human rights abuses in their wake. Over the past few decades, there has been a new scramble for African resources as foreign governments and companies have sought to control the continent''s reserves of minerals, oil and gas.
In Ghana, West Africa, a country with extensive gold mines, the Ghanaian Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice issued a report in 2000 that found "overwhelming evidence of human rights violations occasioned by the mining activities, which were not sporadic, but a wellestablished pattern common to almost all mining communities".
The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has pronounced mining companies in Ghana guilty of various forms of human rights abuses in their host communities.
Aug 24, 2011· "This is unfortunately the latest in a string of human rights abuses that have been occurring in Ghana''s mining sector over the years," said Keith Slack, program manager of Oxfam America''s oil, gas and mining program based in Washington, "The Ghanaian government should carry out a thorough investigation and bring those responsible ...
2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ghana April 20, 2018. Download PDF ... may seek remedies for allegations of human rights violations at the Economic Community of West African States Court of Justice. f. ... Governmental Attitude Regarding International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Abuses of Human Rights.
A recent research conducted by Livelihood and Environment Ghana (LEG) with the aim of compiling and documenting the human rights abuses in the catchment areas of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited''s afo Mine revealed very harrowing and deteriorating human rights situation in the lives of communities .
document the dynamics of exploitation and abuse of children in and around Obuasi, Ghana, where informal smallscale and artisanal gold mining occurs. While Ghanaian human rights groups have been concerned for many years about the enslavement and exploitation of children linked with socalled "galamsey" mining sites,
The Human Rights Court has been fairly successful in protecting the rights of ordinary citizens and opposition politicians against overreaching government agencies. Meanwhile, CHRAJ is the primary organ for redress of human rights violations in Ghana, and it .
Mining companies operating in various communities throughout the country have been embarking on different projects but have on many occasions been accused of environmental and humanrights abuses ...
Nov 01, 2010· Abuses common in Ghana gold mining. By Artis Henderson. The Associated Press. 1 November 2010. DAKAR, Senegal Foreign mining companies in goldrich Ghana regularly seize people''s land, pollute the environment and violently suppress those who oppose them, according to a new report by a human rights team at the University of Texas School of Law.
Impact of mining in Obuasi Municipality in Ashanti region of Ghana: An assessment of human rights concerns in mining communities ... and rampant rights abuse should mechanism not be put in place ...
Feb 05, 2015· This is because the trade liberalization policy as prescribed by World Bank and IMF to developing countries is equally to be blamed for these rampant human rights abuses especially in mining ...
The University of Nottingham, England, is partnering Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF) a media advocacy organisation to promote human rights in communities affected by mining activities.
Wacam angry over human rights abuses ... and mining concessions ought to be defined adding that poor environmental impact assessment could make farmers in mining communities to migrate to the cities in search of jobs. Mrs. OwusuKoranteng consequently called for the strengthening of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703). Source: Ghana ...
Jun 15, 2011· Mining companies operating in Ghana should stop human rights abuses – killing and maiming people and destroying their houses, crops, fishponds in mining communities, [Wassa Communities Against Mining] WACAM,...has said. "Foreign multinational mining companies have a responsibility to behave as ...
In 2018, Ghana made a moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. The government secured at least 14 convictions for offenses related to the worst forms of child labor, approved the National Plan of Action Phase II on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor, and launched a strategy to combat child labor in the fishing sector.
A recent research conducted by Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), reveals evidence of awful human rights abuses in mining communities, ranging from widespread pollution of water sources, deprivation and loss of livelihoods, excesses by security agencies and security contractors of the mining companies.
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