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Sierra Leone: Mining Boom Brings Rights Abuses
HRW, 19 February 2014
The government of Sierra Leone and a mining company that is the country's largest private employer have undermined villagers' access to food and prevented workers from challenging… Read more »
Sierra Leone Mining Boom Brings Abuses
A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses the government and a London-based mining company operating in the country of undermining villagers' access to food and preventing workers from challenging abusive practices.
Children play on plots of land to house families who were relocated to make room for mining.
Documents
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19 February 2014
Whose Development?: Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leoneâs Mining Boom
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- Human Rights Watch
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- Human Rights Watch
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This 96-page report documents how the government and London-based African Minerals Limited forcibly relocated hundreds of families from verdant slopes ... see more »
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Sierra Leone: Remedies Offered After Deadly Mine Violence
VOA, 19 February 2014
Human Rights Watch has released a report on human rights abuses and development in Sierra Leone. The report looks at African Minerals, a London-based iron ore mining company. In… Read more »
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Sierra Leone: PC MP Calls for Pro-Local Banking & Mining Laws
Concord, 3 February 2014
Paramount Chief Member of Parliament, P.C. Bai Kurr Kanagbaro Sanka lll, representing Tonkolili District, has appealed to his colleague lawmakers to repeal and amend laws relating… Read more »
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Africa: Africans Struggle to See Oil, Mineral Revenues
allAfrica, 27 January 2014
A major new survey of African countries which depend on mining or oil revenues shows that six in 10 people have difficulty in finding out how their governments spend the proceeds… Read more »
InFocus
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The launch of the country's first online mining database in West Africa comes with a promise to increase transparency and accountability in the country's rich natural resource ... Read more »
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The Gola Rainforest remains a centre of contention as the local community plans to take their chief to court over a controversial 50-year land lease to a UK mining company. Read more »
