Reports, advocacy briefings, and press statements from the communities WACAM works alongside.
Mining giant Newmont has been seizing farms and dumping cyanide into waterways YaaKonadu sits outside the farmhouse in Ghana that Newmont took away from her. Company workers spray-painted "Done" on the wall. By Sophia…
Powerful persons involved in illegal mining activities [Galamsey] should be prosecuted, Paramount Chief of Essikadu Traditional area, Nana Kobina Nketsia has said. Nana Nketsia who made the suggestion at a stakeholders…
Kantinka (B/A), Feb 15, GNA – A research study by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and two other institutions shows that the operation of the Newmont Ahafo Mine, has adversely impacted the lives of women in the …
The Institute of Development Studies at the University of Cape Coast, in collaboration with Wacam, a non-governmental organisation, have launched two reports on the adverse effects of the operations of Newmont Gha…
Wacam, a non-governmental association, has renewed calls for the amendment of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703) to cure deficiencies in the decade-old law. According to WACAM, portions of the Act are ob…
A proposed Minerals and Mining Bill that addresses the challenges in the mining sector has been launched in Accra. The bill seeks to fill the gaps in the current Minerals and Mining Act of 2006 which falls short of the…
Ms Joana Manu, the Co-ordinator of Wacam Women’s Section participated in a conference in Rome organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace for communities affected by mining operations from 17th to 19…
As part of strengthening the capacity of Wacam’s staff on issues of natural resource and its exploitation, the programme officers had the opportunity of participating in a training programme on equitable and susta…
Joana Manu, a gender activist in Wacam, has retained her seat as assembly member for PresteaDumasi electoral area with an overwhelming margin of more than nine hundred votes. She won her first election with a vote diffe…
Wacam in collaboration with Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) facilitated a study tour for 22 people drawn from Parliament and Civil Society Groups in Senegal, 26th August to 2nd September. The event which was fund…
