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Video Message from Porgera Women to UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

Catherine Coumans

Ph.D. Research Coordinator and Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator

Tired of waiting for fair compensation from mining giant Barrick Gold for gross sexual violence, 119 indigenous women from Papua New Guinea call for United Nations intervention. They sent this video message to the 5th annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights taking place this week in Geneva.