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gold mining and human rights--When Silence is Golden
By: alexlali
Posted: Feb 10 08
Witnessed: 1922 times
Regions: Ghana
Issues: Eau, Environnement, Pauvreté
When Silence is Golden is a documentary film follows its director in her quest to lift the silence on the gold mining activities of a Canadian mining company near a small town in Western Ghana. Through her journey, we meet the inhabitants of this town who, despite efforts by the government to silence them, cannot hide their anger and are eager to express their grievances. In seeking to explain this complex situation, the film comes face to face with the human rights implications of gold mining operations in Africa—intimidation by soldiers policing the towns to suppress growing tensions, severe contamination of water sources and the possible resettlement of these communities. This is a film about the struggles of ordinary people who want their voices to be heard; a portrait of a battle that many may consider as already lost.
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