The [gold] informal rush is indicative of a broader problem with the country’s mining sector – the sense that foreign companies have minted it from their concessions delivering few benefits either to the Ghanaian economy …
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Mining: Growing backlash against groups who are ‘minting it’
Ghana to hike taxes on mining companies
Ghana will seek to boost revenues from its mining industry next year by hiking taxes, according to a text of the 2012 budget delivered to parliament recently. The corporate tax rate on miners will increase …
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Ghanaians demand justice from gold miners
A Ghanaian business magazine has revealed that the state holds no stake in any of five major gold mining enterprises operating in the country. Ghana’s Mine Workers Union is calling for a windfall tax to …
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PICKET!! STOP LA COLOSA GOLD MINE
2pm on FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER at the Colombian Embassy at 3 Hans Crescent, London, SW1X 0LN.
Nearest tube: Knightsbridge.
Organised by:
Colombia Solidarity Campaign
Movimiento 22
COLOMBIA, the second most BIODIVERSE country in the world, …
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Colombia to the Congo: Lust for Gold Threatens Environment & Human Rights
Nestled alongside the central range of the Andes lies the town of Cajamarca, Colombia, also known as la dispensa agricola de Colombia: literally Colombia’s agricultural larder. The fertile environs surrounding this settlement of twenty thousand …
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Human rights violations continue in Ghana’s mining sector
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 …
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Another shooting incident at AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine in Ghana
There has been another shooting incident at the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine during which 23-year-old Kwame Eric of Binsere, near Obuasi, was shot by a detail of a private security organisation engaged by the Company. …
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Polluting miner gets $130m health grant for Ghana
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is backing one of Africa’s biggest mining companies in carrying out a malarial control programme in Ghana. Its decision is – to say the least – …
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AngloGold Ashanti wins spoof award
AngloGold Ashanti wins spoof award for environmental destruction and human rights abuse in Ghana.
See http://publiceye.ch/en/news/press-release-january-10th-2011/.
See the company’s response at http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/PublicEyenominations2011responses.
AngloGold Ashanti is a South African company with a listing on the …
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Abuses common in Ghana gold mining – Report
Foreign gold mining companies in 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 …
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Ghana conference makes major demands for sustainability, human rights
In one of the largest and most comprehensive conferences of its kind held in Africa, 1,700 delegates from mining-affected Ghanaian communities have issued many urgent demands to their government. These would affect London-listed AngloGold Ashanti…
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Ghana: AngloGold Ashanti condemned for demolishing village
The people of Teberebie near Tarkwa have many complaints against AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine. Some of the complaints include allegations of pollution of rivers, conflicts around the dumping of rock waste on community farms and …
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