Experiences from Ghana on Mining and its Impact on …
The investigation sought to critically examine the broad trends of the human rights situation in mining communities and the underlying reasons for increasing reports of human rights violations in mining areas in the country. The specific aims of the investigation were: To asses the human rights situation in the mining communities.
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Ghana: Mining becoming synonymous to 'Abuse of …
A recent research conducted by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), reveals evidence of awful human rights abuses in …
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Ahafo Gold Mine Implicated in Human Rights Abuses and …
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 …
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How the rush for critical minerals threatens human rights
A separate tracker from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre monitors how the race for critical minerals such as cobalt, copper, lithium, manganese, nickel and zinc is resulting in human rights abuses. Designed to guide environmental, social and governance investors in their stewardship activities, it shows how mining …
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Mining, the environment, and human rights in …
To address this gap, this paper examines the extent to which mining companies meet their responsibility to respect human rights and ensure that environmental rights of …
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A decade of community-based mining advocacy in Ghana
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 …
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CHRAJ indicts mining companies of human rights abuses [Ghana]
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....In a draft investigative report into the state of human rights in mining communities, CHRAJ indicates that its findings revealed evidence of …
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Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences …
meant gross human rights abuses for communities living in and around mining concessions. This is in the ... has focused on environmental impacts of mining in Ghana, there was the need for the ...
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Small-scale Mining, the SDGs and Human Insecurity …
Small-scale Mining, the SDGs and Human Insecurity in Ghana. Isaac Mensah, John Boakye-Danquah, Nurudeen Suleiman, Sena Nutakor & Muhammad Dan …
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Effects of Illegal Mining on the Environment, Economy, …
dominant in the small-scale mining sector in Ghana. The Ghana Minerals Commission and Human Rights Watch [15] reported that artisanal and small-scale mining constitutes 34% of gold mining in Ghana. This sector comprises mining communities, migrants, nomadic people, seasonal peasant farmers, and retrenched miners from the large-scale sector [7].
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Ghana's informal mining harms health and the land
Artisanal small-scale mining has been practised in Ghana for over a century. In 2018, small-scale miners generated 2.1 million ounces of gold, accounting for 43.1% of total gold production in the ...
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Article 5 Ecological Resistance Movements: A Case Study From Ghana
Ghana that has lodged a formal complaint on human rights abuses in mining communi ties with the Commis sion on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in 2000.
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(PDF) Promoting Human Rights Responsibilities: The …
PDF | On Jun 11, 2019, Uwafiokun Idemudia and others published Promoting Human Rights Responsibilities: The Experience in Ghana's Gold Mining Industry | Find, read and cite all the research you ...
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Human Rights Struggles in Ghana's Mining …
became what is dubbed as "struggles for human rights" in this study because there have been reports of difficulties in getting justice for affected communities. With purely qualitative research tools, this study investigated some of the claims of abuse of rights of people in Ghana's mining communities by adopting the Prestea area for a ...
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Human Rights Struggles in Ghana's Mining …
unfavourable impacts, considered as abuse of human rights of people in mining communities. With several constitutional and institutional reforms, there was increased …
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Ineffective mining laws creating environmental problems
Ineffective mining laws creating environmental problems. There is no system of enforcing mining laws effectively and this has allowed mining companies to carry out human rights abuses in the mining communities. Professor Attah Britwum, Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cape Coast who made this observation said the …
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How a private company's salt mining is undermining livelihoods, human
Noah Dameh's ordeal is an episode of a running series of human rights abuses, press freedom breaches and safety of journalists' issues concerning a community radio station, residents of Ada, and their right to protest against a private salt mining company, Electrochem Ghana Limited (EGL).
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Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An …
Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: An area of limited statehood perspective. Uwafiokun Idemudia, Corresponding Author. Uwafiokun Idemudia. ... the extent to which mining companies meet their responsibility to respect human rights and ensure that environmental rights of community members in mining areas are not …
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Research report on mining induced resettlement and
Obuasi (Ash), Feb. 20, GNA – A research report which sheds light on the experiences of mining communities in Ghana regarding compensation and resettlement has been launched in Obuasi. The Center for Social Impact Studies (CeSIS), an Obuasi-based research and advocacy group which conducted the research with support from the …
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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. Our work is focused on community …
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(PDF) Incidences of human rights violations and practice of …
Conclusion Several studies have reported the impacts of mining on host The study assessed host mining communities' perspectives on communities in Ghana (e.g., Akabzaa et al., 2007; human rights violations and implementation of the Principles Amponsah-Tawiah and Dartey-Baah, 2011; Hilson and on Security and Human Rights in …
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10 Human Rights Priorities for the Extractives Sector
Human rights are inherent to all human beings. They are defined and established in more than 80 international legal instruments 1 and define the fundamental protections of human dignity, needs, and freedoms, such as food, housing, privacy, personal security, and democratic participation. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human …
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Small scale miners trained on human rights due diligence
By. GNA. -. October 2, 2023. 0. Miners Training. Some members of the Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners (GNASSM) are currently receiving training on the human rights due diligence ...
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The state of human rights in mining communities in …
right to development, serious human rights abuses are sometimes committed. In this article, I review the monitoring role of the Commission on Human Rights and …
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Human rights and mining wrongs: what do miners still …
Indeed, since the publication of the 2020 RMI Report, new events have highlighted the mining industry's inability to protect human rights at its operations. Petra Diamonds has had to pay out more than $6m to the families of seven people killed by security forces at its Williamson mine in Tanzania. Meanwhile, Access Asia Mining plans …
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Ghanaians present complaints of human rights abuses
24th April 2007. Ghana's National Coalition on Mining (NCOM), set up to reveal and counter the fierce repression of . communities by mining companies and their "security" …
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(PDF) Promoting Human Rights Responsibilities: The Experience in Ghana
Promoting Human Rights Responsibilities: The Experience in Ghana's Gold Mining Industry. In book: Corporate Actors in Global Governance: Business as Usual or New Deal (pp.51-74) Chapter: 3 ...
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Human rights violations continue in Ghana's mining …
August 24, 2011 By Oxfam. 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 …
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Experiences from Ghana on Mining and its …
The specific aims of the investigation were: To asses the human rights situation in the mining communities. To examine the extent of pollution of water bodies and causes …
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