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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for artisanal mines
1 results foundAuthor: Berne Declaration Title: A Golden Racket: The True Source of Switzerland's 'Togolese" Gold Summary: Where do Swiss imports of gold from West African Togo, which doesn't produce any gold, actually come from? With the support of witness statements and exclusive documents, in September 2015, Public Eye revealed that the gold comes from small-scale artisanal mines in Burkina Faso, where tens of thousands of children haul it out of the ground in life-threatening conditions. The valuable good is then smuggled to Togo, where a Geneva-based trader imports it and sells it on to the Tessin-based refinery Valcambi. The case shows the need for a statutory duty of due diligence for Swiss companies. Details: Lausanne: The Author, 2015. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 14, 2019 at: https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/doc/Rohstoffe/2015_PublicEye_A_golden_racket_Report.pdf Year: 2015 Country: Switzerland URL: https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/doc/Rohstoffe/2015_PublicEye_A_golden_racket_Report.pdf Shelf Number: 154597 Keywords: Artisanal MinesChild Labor Gold Natural Resources Smuggling |