Support labor rights in gold mining in Colombia

On February 7 AMICHOCÓ Foundation hosted the Workshop on Decent Work in Small Mining. This workshop is part of an agreement signed last year with the National Labor School (ENS, for its acronym in Spanish) for project "Fair Trade and Responsible Mining" that AMICHOCÓ is conducting in collaboration with...

For years, the department of Antioquia has been a leader in gold production in Colombia. However, the exploitation of the mines of the department has not been done under the best conditions, because many miners are still under informality. Besides the above working conditions and security are not the best and the...

We have been working with the artisan and small scale miners of Remedios and Segovia in the development of a technical diagnosis regarding the productive, environmental, managerial and labor status of the mining organizations in the region. Over the past few months AMICHOCÓ developed surveys, interviews and field...

Over the last months we have been developing a diagnosis of the labor and environmental conditions of artisanal and small scale mining in Antioquia´s Northeastern region. The most relevant findings have been the high levels of school desertion and serious environmental impacts because of mercury and cyanide...

Last week AMICHOCÓ and a representative of the small scale miners of Segovia, Antioquia attended a workshop on the FAIRTRADE/FAIRMINED standard organized by the Alliance for Responsible Mining – ARM. Miners from Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia met to evaluate the standard after its first year of...