Barrick Gold

Global Condemnation of Barrick’s Effort to Secure Legal Immunity from Rape Victims
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Protestors outside Barrick Gold’s 2013 Annual General MeetingFor many years Papua New Guineans, with the support of MiningWatch Canada and other international organizations, have demanded that Barrick Gold acknowledge a long-standing pattern of vicious beatings, rapes and gang rapes of local indigenous women by security guards at the Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) mine, operated and 95% owned by Barrick.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Newsletter 34: Spring/Summer 2013
Chilean Organizations Call Ruling on Barrick's Pascua Lama Project 'Dangerous Precedent'
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Public Declaration: Eleven Chilean organizations, representing groups living downstream of Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama project, speak out against the recent fine and suspension imposed on the company for not going far enough. Barrick Gold faces a record fine of $16.4 million and must halt operations until it takes measures to prevent water contamination.

Chile, Corporate Accountability, Environment, Barrick Gold
Barrick Under Global Pressure to Withdraw Conditions on Remedy for PNG Rape Victims
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Since January, 2013, MiningWatch Canada has raised concern about the fact that Barrick Gold is seeking legal immunity from victims of rape by mine security guards at the company’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights
Barrick Seeks Immunity from Rape Victims at its Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

News release: Barrick Gold’s shareholder meeting today is the first since the company has started to implement a long-overdue remedy program for hundreds of alleged rape victims in Papua New Guinea. However, in return for individual benefit packages the women must provide Barrick legal immunity by signing an agreement never to sue the company for their rape.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights
Letter to UN Commissioner for Human Rights re: Barrick Gold's "grievance" procedure for victims of rape by security guards at the Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Letters to Dr. Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) re: abuse by Barrick Gold of a non-judicial grievance mechanism for victims of rape by security guards at the Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Women
Globe and Mail Proclaims on Rapes in Papua New Guinea
Friday, February 15, 2013

The deal that Barrick Gold is offering women who were raped and gang raped by employees of its Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea is not "fair" as a Globe and Mail editorial deemed this week. And it's not only Barrick that's delayed far too long in addressing these egregious abuses.

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Barrick Gold
Rape Victims Must Sign Away Rights to Get Remedy from Barrick
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Ottawa – Washington, D.C. - Oxford – January 30, 2013. Following years of denial, Barrick Gold is implementing a remedy program for victims of rape by employees of its Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Porgera Mine - Barrick, Corporate Accountability, Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Impact on Communities, Women
Canada’s Development Aid Dollars at Odds with Communities
Monday, November 26, 2012

Two queries submitted to the Canadian government with support from MiningWatch in recent months have turned up further evidence that Canadian aid spending is at odds with communities’ interests.

Corporate Accountability, Honduras, Peru, Barrick Gold, Newsletter 33: Autumn 2012
Chile: Communities and Government Officials Redraw Borders that Barrick Gold Seeks to Dissolve
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

News release: Barrick Gold's recent second quarter results reveal cost overruns in the binational Pascua Lama project on the border between Chile and Argentina that point to serious challenges to this project's overall feasibility from communities, civil society organizations, and government officials acting in the public interest.

Argentina, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Environment, Barrick Gold, Human Rights, Labour
Peruvians Oppose CIDA’s Joint CSR Initiative with Barrick Gold and World Vision
Friday, March 9, 2012

Opinion: Rick Arnold, former coordinator of Common Frontiers Canada, argues that the CIDA-funded CSR project with World Vision and Barrick Gold is aimed at the pacification of local dissent over a new Barrick project in La Libertad, Perú, rather than local economic development.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Peru, Barrick Gold, Indigenous Rights

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