Preface by the Editors ✁ ✂ ✄ ♦ Tampakan Copper-Gold Project Brigitte Hamm · Anne Schax · Christian Scheper Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), commissioned by MISEREOR (German Catholic Bishops’ Organization for Development Cooperation) and Fastenopfer (Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund), in collaboration with Bread for All Imprint ■☎✆✝✞✝ ✟✠✡☛ ☞✌ 978-3-939218-42-5 Published by: Bischöfl iches Hilfswerk MISEREOR e.V. Mozartstraße 9 · 52064 Aachen · Germany Phone: +49 (0)241 442 0 www.misereor.org Contact: Armin Paasch (
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[email protected]) Authors: Brigitte Hamm, Anne Schax, Christian Scheper (Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen) Photos: Elmar Noé, Armin Paasch, Elisabeth Strohscheidt, Bobby Timonera Cover photo: Paasch/MISEREOR Photos included in this study show the everyday life and present natural environment of people likely to be affected by the proposed Tampakan mine. Graphic Design: VISUELL Büro für visuelle Kommunikation, Aachen Published: July 2013 (updated version) Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project Brigitte Hamm · Anne Schax · Christian Scheper ✍ Study Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project Preface by the Editors ✥ ✏ ✏✑✒ ✏✓ ✔✒ ✕ ✖ ✗✘ ✓ ✏✓ ✙ ✚ ✏✑✓ ✛ ✒ ✜✓ ✏ ✕✘✓ ✢ ✣ ✤ ✢ ✛ ✢ ✜ May 2013. Partners have raised severe human rights concerns related “accident” has gained world-wide public attention: the col- to the Tampakan Copper-Gold Mine proposed by Sagitta- lapse of another garment factory in Bangladesh. Hundreds rius Mines Inc. (SMI) and its shareholders Xstrata Copper, of workers lost their lives, and many more were serious- Indophil Resources NL and Tampakan Group of Companies.