Reports, advocacy briefings, and press statements from the communities WACAM works alongside.
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Wacam has held 2019's responsible mining forum under the theme '‘promoting responsible mining, the role of women''. The forum brought together diverse stakeholders with interests in mining and a cross-sect…
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The dictates of the third jungle boom (third gold rush) resulted in a technological change of the operations of mining in Ghana from underground mining to surface mining where large tracts of agricultural lands were ced…
Date: Nov 27 , 2019 BY: Timothy Ngnenbe Wacam, a civil society group, has advocated a review of the country’s mining laws to include specific provisions that protect the rights of women in th…
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The Chief and elders of Patrensa community in the Asante Akyem Agogo Traditional Area were engaged by Wacam in a days’ workshop to sensitise them on their rights as earmarked mining communities and on the provisio…
Wacam and the Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) with the mandate from a group of affected community people in Mankessim Ajopa and Teberebie in the Tarkwa Municipality are engaging AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem on iss…
Wacam, with support from Trust Africa, organised a three-day workshop at Adwenpa Hotel Busunya from the 15th to 18th July 2019 for earmarked mining, oil and gas communities in the Nkoranza North and South Districts. The…
Participants of a learning exchange programme from Austria sponsored by an Austrian Organisation DKA are calling for communities to protect their lands from irresponsible mining. The participants are in Ghana to attend …
The Executive Director of Wacam,Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng has urged students privileged to be studying Archaeology to have a responsibility to become agents of the change in the re-thinking of our development effor…
The negative impacts associated with the exploitation of mineral resources cuts across gender groups in affected communities. Women, however, bear the rife of these ill effects. Compensation regimes do not tak…
Twenty Households in Dormaa Kantinka, affected by Newmont Ahafo operations are to be resettled by Newmont after years of being subjected to the ill effects of the company’s activities. The company’s rock was…
