The United Nation Working Group on business and human rights urg[ed] federal and provincial authorities, as well as the business sector, “to take a tougher line” to prevent and address adverse human rights impacts of the extractive sector both at home and abroad... Ugo Lapointe, Canada program coordinator for MiningWatch Canada, [states,]... "[T]he UN experts took note of a significant structural problem... the ‘free entry’ system... [that] allows for mining titles to be unilaterally acquired and for mining exploration work to be carried out on Indigenous lands without prior information, consultation and consent.”... Indigenous peoples have raised this issue to the UN working group and for over a decade in Canada... MiningWatch also presented to the UN Working Group on findings based on years of human rights field assessments at Barrick Gold mines in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Tanzania... finding serious problems with the design and implementation by Barrick Gold of operational-level grievance mechanisms for victims of criminal acts such as assault, killings, and sexual violence by mine security and police guarding these mines. [For previous responses by Barrick Gold on these issues, see the following: June 2016, December 2015, October 2015, March 2014]