Sonke Gender Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), represented by Section27, have applied to become “amici curiae” – friends of the court – in a looming landmark lawsuit by 56 miners who seek to hold South African gold mining companies accountable for failing to prevent and respond to silicosis
Sonke’s Dean Peacock and Emily Nagisa Keehn and the Treatment Action Campaign’s Anele Yawa write in the Mail & Guardian about mine workers afflicted with silicosis and/or TB launching a historic class action lawsuit for compensation.
A presentation by Section 27 (representing Sonke and TAC in the amici curiae application), showing that gold mining corporations need to be accountable for miners contracting silicosis.
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Dean Peacock is co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Sonke Gender Justice, a multi-award winning South African NGO working in twenty five countries in Africa and globally to prevent gender-based violence, reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS and promote gender equality, and human rights. He is also an
Peacock’s affidavit, on behalf of Sonke, shows the implications of illness and unemployment on the children and families of sick mineworkers and the impact of silicosis on women and girls in particular, who often bear the brunt of having to care for the ill former mineworkers.
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