Some gold, diamond and bauxite mines in the Venezuelan Amazon are largely controlled by criminal gangs who exploit, beat and even kill workers, a ...
FILE PHOTO: Delegates wearing protective face masks attend the 44th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 30, 2020. REUTERS/Denis BalibouseGENEVA: Some gold, diamond and bauxite mines in the Venezuelan Amazon are largely controlled by criminal gangs who exploit, beat and even kill workers, a United Nations investigation has found.
There was no immediate response from Venezuela, one of the UN body's 47 members, to a Reuters request for comment. Venezuela's ambassador Jorge Valero is expected to address the council. Nearly 150 men and women are reported to have died in or around the mines from March 2016 to 2020, with security forces implicated in half of the incidents, it said, adding that the government had not replied to its request for information."According to accounts received ... bodies of miners are often thrown into old mining pits used as clandestine graves," it said.
It called for the government of President Nicolas Maduro to regularise mining activities and ensure that they meet international legal and environmental standards.
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