MINING 7 - Barrick and the Cruelty of Gold
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Mine Security - Is Your Security Targeting and Rapping Women?
In two thousand eight when we finally were able to bring two people in from the akali tongi association to the shareholder meeting. And that they stood up in front of all the shareholders, the board of directors,. The company was a complete denial. When they were approached by the media, they would say, no, this is outrageous. If this was happening, we would know about as mining watch canada and researchers from new york university and harvard gathered more documentation on the sexual violence. Berrick agreed to institute a grievance mechanism to provide compensation to women who are raped by their security guards. 119 women went through this process. 11 women actually chose to sue berrack. They
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