WACAM advocates women’s empowerment in mining
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Wacam Sensitises Chiefs and Traditional Leaders of Patrensa on Mining Law
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 ...
Wacam Dialogues With AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine On Community Concerns
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 ...
Let’s Protect Our Environment From Irresponsible Mining-DKA Austria Learning Exchange Participants
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 ...
Wacam Engages Earmarked Mining ,Oil and Gas Communities
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 ...
Become Agents of Change In The Re-thinking Of Our Development
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 ...
Promoting Women’s Participation In Extractive Industry Governance
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 take into ...
Protect Local Interest In Negotiating Mining Contracts-Wacam
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 mining contracts ...
Empowering women through livelihood development
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 committed large ...
Wacam supports Dormaa Kantinka in securing resettlement package
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 ...