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href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/06/03/facebook-safeguard-users-entering-china-market">Facebook: Safeguard Users Before Entering China Market</a></div> <div class="view-field field-node-created">Jun 3, 2011</div> <div class="view-field field-news-teaser"><p>Facebook risks abetting Chinese government abuses unless it creates human rights safeguards before entering that market. Facebook should say publicly how it plans to protect users from surveillance and censorship by the Chinese government, which is in the midst of a crackdown on dissent.</p> </div> </div></li><li class="last"><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/01/papua-new-guinea-serious-abuses-barrick-gold-mine">Papua New Guinea: Serious Abuses at Barrick Gold Mine </a></div> <div class="view-field field-node-created">Feb 1, 2011</div> <div class="view-field field-news-teaser"><p>Private security personnel employed at a gold mine in Papua New Guinea have been implicated in alleged gang rapes and other violent abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Porgera mine has produced billions of dollars of gold in its twenty years of operation, and is operated and 95 percent owned by Barrick Gold, a Canadian company that is the world's largest gold producer.</p> </div> </div></li></ul></div></div><div class="view-footer view-footer-topic-mid"><div class="more"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news-filter/685">More news</a>»</div></div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-middle clear-block"><h2 class="title">Reports</h2><div class="view view-region-reports"><div class="view-content view-content-region-reports"><div class="item-list"><ul class=" clear-block"><li class="first"><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2007/04/30/discounting-rights" class="imagecache imagecache-crop-200x133N imagecache-linked imagecache-crop-200x133N_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110707103645im_/http://www.hrw.org/en/sites/default/files/imagecache/crop-200x133N/media/images/report-covers/g1902.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-crop-200x133N"/></a></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2007/04/30/discounting-rights">Discounting Rights</a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle">Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers’ Right to Freedom of Association</div> </div></li><li class=""><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2007/02/16/indonesia-reform-military-business">Indonesia: Reform of Military Business</a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle">A Human Rights Watch Background Briefing</div> </div></li><li class="last"><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2004/06/09/turning-blind-eye-0">Turning a Blind Eye</a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle">Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation</div> </div></li></ul></div></div><div class="view-footer view-footer-region-reports"><div class="more"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/publications/reports/685/related">More reports</a>»</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-footer clear-block"><div id="block-tic-policy_hybrid" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <h6 class="block-title clear-block">Corporations</h6> <div class="bcontent"><div class="view view-taxonomy-filter"><div class="view-content view-content-taxonomy-filter"><div class="item-list"><ul class=" clear-block"><li class="first"><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/06/03/letter-mr-mark-zuckerberg-chairman-and-ceo-facebook-regarding-human-rights-considera">Letter to Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and CEO of Facebook, Regarding Human Rights Considerations Before Entering China Market</a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-created">Jun 3, 2011</div> <div class="view-field field-news-teaser"><p>In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive officer, on May 10, 2011, Human Rights Watch warns the company that it could become complicit in government censorship and efforts both to stifle online organizing and obtain the personal information of cyberactivists or online critics of the Chinese government.</p> </div> <div class="view-field field-related-audio"></div> <div class="view-field field-related-videos"></div> </div></li><li class=""><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/06/03/facebook-safeguard-users-entering-china-market">Facebook: Safeguard Users Before Entering China Market</a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-created">Jun 3, 2011</div> <div class="view-field field-news-teaser"><p>Facebook risks abetting Chinese government abuses unless it creates human rights safeguards before entering that market. 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Barrick, a Canadian firm, is the world's largest gold producer and Porgera is one of the world's largest gold mines. Now the company is scrambling to put things right, investing in new mechanisms for oversight and accountability and firing some of its private security personnel while others are being hauled away by the police.</p> </div> <div class="view-field field-related-audio"></div> <div class="view-field field-related-videos"></div> </div></li><li class=""><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/01/papua-new-guinea-serious-abuses-barrick-gold-mine">Papua New Guinea: Serious Abuses at Barrick Gold Mine </a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-created">Feb 1, 2011</div> <div class="view-field field-news-teaser"><p>Private security personnel employed at a gold mine in Papua New Guinea have been implicated in alleged gang rapes and other violent abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. 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The G20 Advocacy Coalition brings together varied organizations that share the view that increased transparency is essential to promoting economic development, alleviating poverty, and realizing enjoyment of economic and social rights.<strong><br/> </strong></p> </div> <div class="view-field field-related-audio"></div> <div class="view-field field-related-videos"></div> </div></li><li class=""><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/11/04/canada-ignatieff-has-some-explaining-do">Canada: Ignatieff Has Some Explaining to Do</a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-created">Nov 4, 2010</div> <div class="view-field field-news-teaser"><p>It was not surprising that last week Stephen Harper's government defeated a modest opposition private member's bill that offered an opportunity to improve the human rights records of Canadian oil, mining and gas companies. But the apparently ambiguous stance of opposition leader Michael Ignatieff on the bill came as a surprise to many -- and leaves him with some explaining to do.</p> </div> <div class="view-field field-related-audio"></div> <div class="view-field field-related-videos"></div> </div></li><li class=""><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/11/08/us-review-us-national-contact-point-oecd-guidelines-multinational-enterprises">US: Review of the National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises</a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-created">Nov 3, 2010</div> <div class="view-field field-news-teaser"></div> <div class="view-field field-related-audio"></div> <div class="view-field field-related-videos"></div> </div></li><li class="last"><div class="view-item clear-block"> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-cover"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-title"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/10/27/monitoring-mining-companies-long-overdue">Canada: Monitoring of Mining Companies Long Overdue</a></div> <div class="view-field field-reportsynopsis-subtitle"></div> <div class="view-field field-node-created">Oct 27, 2010</div> <div class="view-field field-news-teaser"><p>The House of Commons is to vote today on a modest, sensible piece of legislation that would be a small step to help improve human rights and the reputation of Canadian companies around the world. You would never know this listening to bill C-300's enemies in the mining industry. The debate over this legislation has descended into circus-like hyperbole, and it is long past time to set the record straight.</p> </div> <div class="view-field field-related-audio"></div> <div class="view-field field-related-videos"></div> </div></li></ul></div></div><div class="view-footer view-footer-taxonomy-filter"><div class="more"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news-all/685">More documents on this topic</a>»</div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div id="footer"><div class="limiter clear-block"> <div class="clear-block"><a href="#header" class="back-to-top">Back to top</a></div> <div class="nav"> <a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/rss" class="rss-link">RSS</a> <div class="pipe-links"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/home" title="Home">Home</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/our-work" title="Our Work">Our Work</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/news" title="News">News</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/publications" title="Publications">Publications</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/multimedia">Multimedia</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/about" title="About Us">About Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110707103645/http://www.kintera.org/site/c.nlIWIgN2JwE/b.4542089/">Donate</a></div> </div> <div class="footer-blocks clear-block"> <div id="block-tic-tic_copy_24478" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="node clear-block ltr ntype-copy"> <div class="content clear-block filter-text"> Human Rights Watch<br/> 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor<br/> New York, NY 10118-3299<br/> USA<br/> Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700<br/> <br/> <strong><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us">Contact Us - Global Offices</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/iff">Film Festival</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/about/jobs">Employment</a></strong> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-tic-5" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="col-left clear-block"><strong class="vocab-header"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/regions">Browse by Region</a></strong><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first"><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/africa">Africa</a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/americas">Americas</a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/asia">Asia</a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/europe/central-asia">Europe/Central Asia</a></li><li class=""><a href="/web/20110707103645/http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-east/n-africa">Middle East/N. 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