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Gold’s Costly Dividend
Human Rights Impacts of Papua New Guinea’s Porgera Gold Mine
Summary
Recommendations
Methodology
I.
Background and Context
The Porgera
Joint Venture
Box 1: An
Altered Landscape
Poor Living
Conditions and Demands for Relocation
Poisonous
Local Politics: Barrick and the Porgera Landowners Association
II. Violence
and Illegal Mining: PJV’s Security Challenges
Illegal
Mining on the Waste Dumps
Organized
Raids on the Mine
Criminalization
of Illegal Mining and its Limitations
III. Gang
Rape and Other Abuses by PJV Security Personnel
The PJV
Security Force
A Legacy of
Abuse?
Box 2:
Replicating Broader Patterns of Abuse
Ongoing
Patterns of Abuse by PJV Security Guards
Gang Rape by
APD Personnel
Box 3:
Another Investigation at Porgera
Box 4:
Retaliation at Home
Box 5: A
Gang Rape Survivor Tells Her Story
Treatment of
Detainees in APD Custody
Excessive
Use of Force
IV. Barrick
and the Mobile Police Deployment to Porgera
V.
Barrick’s International Human Rights Obligations
VI.
Barrick’s Response to Human Rights Concerns at the Porgera Mine
Long Term
Company Efforts to Implement the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human
Rights
Falling
Short
Barrick’s
Response to Human Rights Watch’s Allegations
VII. Health
and Environmental Concerns Regarding Riverine Tailings Disposal at Porgera
Box 6: The
Ok Tedi Disaster
Transparency
Concerns
VIII.
Mercury Use by Small-Scale and Illegal Miners
IX. The Need
for Canadian Government Regulation
Box 7: No Oversight of APD in Porgera
Bill C-300:
A Missed Opportunity
X.
Acknowledgements
Annex:
Barrick’s Response to Human Rights Watch
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