Reports, advocacy briefings, and press statements from the communities WACAM works alongside.
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…
Mining activities have generally impoverished the affected community people who have lost their livelihood due to the mining activities. Poverty in mining communities has worsened because mining companies have comm…
The Executive Director of Wacam, human rights, environmental and mining advocacy non-governmental organisation (NGO), Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng has said that “the power imbalance that occurs during negotiating of …
