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2 Sep 2015

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New Dawn (Liberia)

Liberia: Golden Veroleum challenges NHRI report into community protests directed at company

'GVL excepts to INHCR report', 2 Sep 2015:…Golden Veroleum Liberia, has taken exception to…[a] recent report by the Independent National Commission on Human Rights on the cause of the May…disturbance at its Butaw Estate…[T]he company…[claims the] INHCR…report…appears to have…excluded [certain information]...“INCHR…recommended that royalties should be paid directly to Butaw citizens…[however] GVL deposited in March 2015 37,200 USD into the Butaw Community Development Fund in accordance with its concession agreement obligations. “The Butaw District Community Development Fund Committee was formed in 2014 to oversee the use of the fund…select social infrastructural development projects such as education, health, roads and make financial policies and rules for its financial operatives in line with the concession…and international accounting standards.” According to the company, the INCHR report…asserts that there have been delays in the implementation of the…agreement reached between Butaw citizens and GVL…GVL explains that…there is a specific…events…[that need to be] accomplished by the citizens of Butaw and Murrysville...