In their separate responses to RAID...both Acacia…and Barrick Gold...state: Acacia operates its own human rights programme, conducts its own assessments and engages in its own analysis and follow-up activities, entirely independent of Barrick...On the specific matter of Human Rights Impact Assessments...RAID relies upon comments made by Barrick in its 2013 Assessing Human Rights Risks & Impacts...If Acacia has an alternative summary HRA, or a more detailed or a more recent HRA, whether compiled under its own or Barrick’s HRA process, RAID would welcome its publication…On the wider questions of independence, Barrick's relationship to ABG (now Acacia) and the sharing or separation of policies relating to human rights, RAID has relied upon reports and statements made by both companies....