I am writing with urgency to alert you to the fact that...Barrick Gold is abusing the use of a non-judicial grievance mechanism to request that female victims of rape by security guards at Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine (PJV) in Papua New Guinea sign away their right to legal recourse in return for remedy packages...[I]ndigenous community women in the vicinity of Barrick’s gold mine...have been raped and gang raped by the mine’s security guards...Barrick has now agreed to provide remedy packages, through a project-level non-judicial grievance mechanism...[S]erious concerns with the remedy program...include: use by...staff of a language not commonly understood or spoken by local women;...remedy is not tailored to the harm...; remedy is not culturally appropriate; lack of understanding by women of the process...Barrick...asserts that the remedy program...“fully accords with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.”...Nowhere do the UN Guiding Principles envisage...grievance mechanisms as a way for corporations to secure legal indemnity... [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Barrick Gold to respond to this letter; Barrick sent us their response letter to the High Commissioner for Human Rights - see linked item]