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PR: Och-Ziff report released
RAID
"Och-Ziff, Mugabe's 'Bagmen' and the Underpricing of African Assets" - report released
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PR: Complaint of serious human rights abuses in Australian processing centre lodged against UK company G4S
RAID/Human Rights Law Centre
The UK security contractor G4S has been accused of failing to meet international standards and committing serious human rights violations in relation to the treatment of asylum seekers detained at an off-shore processing centre in Papua New Guinea, operated on behalf of the Australian Government.
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PR: summary critique of GPs and VPSHR released
Time to rethink company grievance mechanisms
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PR: Broken Bones and Broken Promises
A second human rights field assessment at Barrick Gold’s Tanzania subsidiary, Acacia Mining (formerly African Barrick Gold), calls into question commitments made by the company to stop excessive use of force by mine security and police guarding the mine. Interviews conducted by MiningWatch Canada and the British NGO Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) also confirmed that the grievance mechanism at the North Mara Gold Mine Ltd. was used strategically to divert victims from taking legal action. These victims are now facing broken promises by the company and inadequate remedy to deal with the serious long-term harm they have endured.
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PR: Barrick remedy
RAID/MiningWatch Canada/Earthrights International
"Rape victims must sign away rights to get remedy from Barrick"
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PR: Violence ongoing at Barrick mine in Tanzania
RAID/MWC
Deaths and serious injuries of villagers at UK-listed African Barrick Gold’s (ABG) North Mara Gold Mine Ltd. in Tanzania.
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PR: Glencore au Congo: des problèmes irrésolus
RAID, Bread for All (BfA), Fastenopfer
Poor communities living next to Glencore’s mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pay a heavy price for the company’s strategy for success.
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PR: ‘Glencore’s ruthless cost-cutting harms communities in the Congo’ say NGOs
RAID, Bread for All (BfA), Fastenopfer
Poor communities living next to Glencore’s mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pay a heavy price for the company’s strategy for success.
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PR: GlencoreXstrata in DRC - NGO report to come
RAID, Bread for All (BfA), Fastenopfer
Information note: NGOs to publish a new report about GlencoreXstrata’s DRC mines on 17 June 2014.
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pr_voluntary_principles_ungps
RAID
In April 2016 the Government of Canada takes over as chair of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs). NGOs are calling on the Canadian government to seize the opportunity to correct practices that undermine the prospects of impoverished communities overseas to seek remedy for corporate abuse. RAID and MiningWatch Canada warn that the UN Guiding Principles and the VPs allow companies to privatise and control the implementation of human rights, and that this is most apparent in the implementation of “operational level” grievance mechanisms. RAID’s new report Principles without justice: the corporate takeover of human rights (here) released in advance of 2016 plenary meeting of the Voluntary Principles Iniativie in Colombia examines the deficiencies with the VPs and Guiding Principles and further details recommendations for reform
pr_voluntary_principles_ungps.pdf