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 ...
Women in Ghana Battle a U.S.-Owned Gold Mine for Land and Livelihood
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 ...
Prosecute powerful persons behind galamsey – Kobina Nketsia
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 ...
Give Mining Sector agencies prosecution powers
Give mining sector agencies prosecution powers – CSO
A civil society group, Center for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) is advocating for agencies in charge of mining activities to be given ...
Damning Report on Newmont Ahafo Mine Operation
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 ...
Reports say Newmont's operations is adversely affecting food productio
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 ...