Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

To Stop Gold Mine, Romania Seeks World Heritage Designation

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Romania has asked the United Nations to make a Transylvanian village boasting 18th century houses and intact Roman mining shafts into a World Heritage site in a surprise 11th hour move that could protect it from a gold mine project. The request to list Rosia Montana was announced as the government of Dacian Ciolos handed over power this week to the incoming Social Democrat Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, who won elections last month. Romania’s outgoing culture minister said in a...

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