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The Price of Gold by Kigali films. Human Rights' Violation in Yanacocha Gold Mine, Cajamarca, Peru. Producer: Kigali films; Keywords: Peru; mining; Yanacocha; gold mine; Cajamarca; Human Rights' violation; mining conflict. Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Germany.
Representatives from Ghana, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, and Nevada called Newmont Mining, the world's largest gold producer, to urgently reform its human rights and environmental practices at its global operations.
Newmont Mining has been called to respect human rights by:
Fully respecting all human rights and not committing human rights violations, including intimidation of community members and activists.
Refraining from projects that have not secured the free, prior, and informed consent of the communities concerned.
Fully disclosing information about the environmental and social impacts of projects.
Providing fair and just compensation for local communities affected by mining.
Respecting the spiritual and cultural values of communities.
Respect the environment by:
Ending the practice of ocean dumping of mine wastes.
Protecting water resources from pollution and depletion.
Keeping sites of spiritual significance and protected areas off limits from mining.
Ensuring that operations will not result in sulfuric acid drainage to water and soil.
Providing guaranteed funding, before beginning a project, that will fully cover reclamation and closure costs.
Addressing needs left behind by closed mines such as clean- up, reclamation, remedying health impacts, and making land compensations.
