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.
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