The mining industry in Ghana is a major contributor and player in national development. however notwithstanding its positive contribution to national development it is with its own attendant problems. challenges and constraints including Human Rights abuses in mining areas, which when not addressed holistically can undermine the countries ...

Citizens had access to courts to bring lawsuits seeking damages for, or cessation of, human rights abuses. The constitution states the Supreme Court is the final court of appeal. Defendants, however, may seek remedies for allegations of human rights abuses at the Economic Community of West African States Court of Justice. f.

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The USA's biggest gold mining company, Newmont, has once again been accused of perpetrating a raft of human rights and other abuses at its Ahafo mine in Ghana. Recent research, conducted by the Ghanaian NGO, Livelihood and Environment Ghana (LEG), has exposed "unsafe living and working conditions, corruption, lack of proper and adequate ...

The human rights abuses attributed to Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation extend as far as their open-pit mining operations according to Ghanaian activist Richard Adjei-Poku who was in Boulder this month to address Global Green Grants Fund.. Adjei-Poku represents the group Livelihood & Environmental Ghana (LEG), and talked to the group about how Newmont Ghana …

Extractive industries, which are often associated with egregious abuses of human rights, have been a particular focus of the Clinic's work in this area. We have published in-depth reports on the human rights impacts of mining on communities outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, and on indigenous peoples in and Guyana. We have scrutinized ...

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 Community-Based Mining Advocacy in Ghana Challenges and Prospects. In retrospect, anybody who is conversant with the history of this organisation would not be far from right to describe the anniversary …

GDACA Ghana Danish Communities Association GDP Gross Domestic Product ... as a people and whether with regard to Human Rights and Social Justice, Ghana @ 50 has indeed come of age. ... abuse of power/office and conflict of interest. In that regard, the Commission developed Guidelines on Conflict of Interest for Public Officials in ...

Human Rights Council. Twenty-sixth session. Agenda item 3 . Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. Addendum. Visit to Ghana * **

Its aim is to "aid communities that are adversely affected by gold mining" — by helping residents mobilize against human rights abuses, negotiating better compensation packages from the ...

document the dynamics of exploitation and abuse of children in and around Obuasi, Ghana, where informal small-scale 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 so-called "galamsey" mining sites,

Mining becoming synonymous to 'abuse of human rights' in Ghana Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot Accra, May 13, Ghanadot - Despite the strenuous efforts of civil society groups, coupled with the extensive media coverage on environmental and human rights concerns, diverse forms of human rights abuses are still persistent in mining communities in Ghana.

Canadian mining companies have some of the worst records for human rights violations, according to a report submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2013. It found Canadian ...

About Us. Wacam is a premier community based human rights and environmental mining advocacy NGO in Ghana with a community-based focus. Formed in 1998, Wacam has worked to respond to the social, environmental and economic problems that had resulted from the increased mining investment of the third gold rush.

The year was marked by the authorities' restriction of human rights and punitive measures in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a step to control the spread of COVID-19, the government introduced the Imposition of Restrictions Bill, which became law on 21 March and imposed measures notably restricting the rights to freedom of ...

billion, the mining industry contributed 27 per cent of government revenue collected by the Domestic Tax Division of Ghana Revenue Authority6. In spite of these developments, the cost of mining to the country has been too high – destruction of the environment, human rights abuses, displacement of communities and low compensations

2 Human Rights in the Minerals Industry Abstract Mining companies have been criticized for their complicity in the human rights abuses of people and indigenous populations at risk. This report provides a background and examines issues related to specific points of conflict concerning

A case study from rural mining communities was analyse based on the legal framework in ... 2Korsah-Brown (2002) Environment, human rights and mining conflicts in Ghana 3Koranteng (2009) 2 Ghana Mining Report in 2009 criticised government for interested in making money from the

iN 2008 – that is, thirteen years ago – the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) brought out a very interesting report entitled "The state of human rights in mining communities in Ghana".

The Prestea mining community in Ghana has produced approximately nine million ounces of gold and ranked the second highest production of any mine in the country. It is a fact that, some communities around the world have been considerably transformed by the mining industry but same cannot be said about Prestea community.

The Human Rights Watch in 2012 released an incriminatory report that found that persons with mental illnesses in Ghana experiencea range of human rights abuses …

WACAM has noted that the influx of multinational mining companies in the mining sector has invariably led to several abuses and human rights violation in mining communities. The anomalies, according to WACAM, still remains unresolved as a result of weak legislation that seems to protect the interest of mining companies as against the ...

Human Rights Watch and other civil society groups have documented a wide range of human rights abuses in the context of gold and diamond mining, including labor rights abuses…

The Ahafo gold mine, Newmont's first mine in Ghana, has been implicated in human rights abuses and irresponsible practices since before it began operating in 2006. The mine is located in a farming region northwest of the country's capital Accra and has caused major displacement and social impacts. In October, 2009, a cyanide spill occurred at the Ahafo mine that killed a large number of fish ...

A majority of children subject to human trafficking in Ghana are exploited for labor in cocoa production, domestic work, commercial sexual exploitation, gold mining, and fishing. Children as young as age 4 are subjected to forced labor in fishing in the areas around Lake Volta, sometimes as a result of human …

Environmental justice in the context of Ghana specifically refers to human rights abuses in the mining communities, where farmlands have been destroyed, along with livelihoods in search of gold. In the 1970s and 80s, there were attempts by the Bretton Woods Institutions to roll back the powers of …

unfavourable impacts, considered as abuse of human rights of people in mining communities. With several constitutional and institutional reforms, there was increased in the growth of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and awareness of human rights in the mining communities of Ghana also.

Rights groups have called on car manufacturers to do more to address abuses in their aluminum supply chains, including the destruction of farmland, …

WASHINGTON, DC-- International humanitarian organization Oxfam America calls on Ghana's government to address ongoing human rights violations in the West African nation's mining industry. The call to action comes after 23-year old Kwame Eric was shot to death August 10 by an employee of Ghanatta Security Services, a private security firm hired by gold mining company, Anglo …

Ghana was the first African country to participate in the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative for extractive sector companies, recognizing that although governments have the primary responsibility to maintain law and order, security and respect for human rights, companies in industries such as mining have an interest in ...

The community is worried about the potential destruction of arable farmlands and the environment in general. The residents refused to meet with the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Kwaku Asomah Cheremeh, Kwahu South DCE, Emmanuel Atta Ofori and officials of the Taiwanese firm who were on a tour of mining communities in the area.

About Us. Wacam is a premier community based human rights and environmental mining advocacy NGO in Ghana with a community-based focus. Formed in 1998, Wacam has worked to respond to the social, environmental and economic problems that had resulted from the increased mining investment of the third gold rush.

to some mining communities confirmed some of the reports of widespread violent abuses of human rights by mining company officials and their security contractors. The causes of the violations of human rights appear systemic in nature. Based on the Commission's concern for the protection of basic human rights of all persons

The 2009 Ghana Mining Report noted "injustice against the mining communities and lack of proper compensation to affected communities in Ghana is an everyday affair that usually passes unnoticed."3 The report noted the inefficiencies and loopholes in the law and further recommended that issues of regulation over compensation ought to be ...