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The Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) and the Alliance for Responsible Mining created a document with recommendations to include the Voluntary Principles and other good practices on security and human rights into the Fairmined Standard.

Currently, the Fairmined Standard is under revision to create its third version, in response to the needs of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and the gold industry sectors.
This proposal puts forward several recommendations to encourage the Fairmined revision process to consider security and human rights due diligence when it comes to the interactions of ASM with security providers (both public and private) and their respective regulatory bodies and oversight mechanisms.

The recommendations are intended to support artisanal and small-scale mining organizations (ASMOs) to identify security risks and build measures to mitigate these risks and avoid negative impacts on their members, workers and community.
This document was developed as part of the project supported by the United Kingdom on “Strengthening capacities to promote security and human rights good practices around extractive and other industries.” The project was developed in the framework of DCAF’s Security and Human Rights Implementation Mechanism.

Read the document here.