OECD Complaint Against Barrick's Porgera Operations

• Create safe and easily accessible channels that community members, including women, canuse to complain about abuse by Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) employees according to bestinternational practice;• Improve public outreach to explain complaints mechanisms and acceptable conduct by PJVpersonnel;• Implement more rigorous monitoring of PJV security personnel;• Install a new tracking mechanism and control center to allow for closer monitoring of allactive APD personnel in the field;• Expand a network of infrared security cameras to allow visual monitoring of APD personnelon remote parts of the mine’s waste dumps;• Install cameras on all APD vehicles to help prevent abuses from taking place in or near thecars;• Improve channels that whistleblowers can use to safely and anonymously report any abusesby their colleagues at the Porgera mine;• Make public the results of Barrick’s ongoing investigation into allegations of rape and otherabuses by PJV security personnel including any disciplinary action that results. Thisinvestigation should include complaints going back to before Barrick took over the PJVmine;• Ensure that trainings for APD personnel and mobile police squads on human rights principlesand the Voluntary Principles include specific sections on prevention and response to sexualharassment and violence;• Increase recruitment, training, and support of female security personnel, particularly insupervisory roles, among the security staff patrolling the waste dumps and among thosestaffing the mine’s on-site detention facility;• Monitor and make public the number and nature of complaints received through grievancemechanisms at Porgera, the time required to resolve each case, and their outcomes;• Ensure that newly established “women’s liaison” office is provided with adequate training,staff, financial resources, and institutional support.2. HUMAN RIGHTS: B. Operation Ipili ’09 – Forced evictions and destruction of homes atthe Porgera Joint Venture mine• In order to come into compliance with the OECD Guidelines, prevent future harm, andprovide remedy for harm that has been caused by Operation Ipili ’09, Barrick/PJVshould:Withdraw accommodation and other support by PJV to the Mobile Squad in light ofevidence of human rights abuses by police and the existence of court orders requiringthe police to be housed outside the Porgera mine site;31