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15 Jun 2011

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Business Ghana

Stop Human Right Abuses - Mining Companies Told [Ghana]

Mining companies operating in Ghana should stop human rights abuses – killing and maiming people and destroying their houses, crops, fishponds - in mining communities, [Wassa Communities Against Mining] WACAM,...has said. “Foreign multinational mining companies have a responsibility to behave as good corporate citizens and to stop using their financial and lobbying might to violate the rights of poor people,” Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, Executive Director of WACAM, said...He appealed to the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice...to expedite action on issues of human rights abuses reported to it from the mining communities...[refers to AngloGold Ashanti]