Juspol en partners houden workshop bestrijding georganiseerde criminaliteit in mijnbouwsector Suriname
Het ministerie van Justitie en Politie heeft in samenwerking met het departement tegen Transnationale Georganiseerde Misdaad van de Organisatie van de Amerikaanse Staten (DTOC/OAS) en de ambassade van de Verenigde Staten in Suriname, een workshop gehouden over de versterking van de strijd tegen georganiseerde illegale mijnbouwactiviteiten in Suriname.
Het is een driedaagse workshop die in Torarica is gehoude. Op woensdag 12 en donderdag 13 juni 2024 was deze workshop voor de publieke sector en op vrijdag 14 juni 2024 kwam de private sector aan bod. Het thema was het bestrijden van georganiseerde misdaadactiviteiten in de mijnbouwsector van Suriname.
Het uiteindelijke doel van de workshop is het uitdiepen van inzichten van de autoriteiten die verantwoordelijk zijn voor de aanpak van illegale mijnbouw, het aankaarten van de dynamiek van deze activiteit en het onderzoeken van effectieve gerechtelijke strategieën voor uitroeiing ervan.
De minister van Justitie en Politie, Kenneth Amoksi, vindt dat deze workshop op het juiste moment is gehouden en gaf aan dat het van cruciaal belang is omdat hiermee een van de urgentste uitdagingen van het land aangepakt wordt. Verder geeft de minister aan dat de illegale goudwinning niet alleen een milieuprobleem is, maar dat het aanzienlijke economische en sociale uitdagingen met zich meebrengt die de kern van de samenleving verzwakt.
Op het gebied van justitie en veiligheid leidt de illegale goudwinning tot corruptieve belastingontduiking, smokkel en andere aanverwante misdaden die het witwassen van geld faciliteren, zoals drugshandel, illegale wapenhandel en mensenhandel. De veelzijdige aard van dit probleem moet begrepen worden en de strategie die nodig is om het effectief aan te pakken. Op de 1e dag hadden de inleiders het gehad over de verschillende manieren van het komen tot het tegengaan van de georganiseerde illegale mijnbouwactiviteiten, de milieuvervuiling, de noodzaak, het aanpakken van witwassen van geld en het kwikgebruik.
Christopher Valdes, de medewerker Economische Zaken bij de Amerikaanse ambassade, heeft in zijn speech gesproken over de transparantie die gestimuleerd moet worden en de samenwerking die Amerika wil aangaan met Suriname om de strijd tegen illegale mijnbouwcontrole aan te gaan.
John Grajales Technische specialist op het departement voor het tegengaan van grensoverschrijdende georganiseerde misdaden binnen de OAS was ook een van de inleiders en heeft het gehad over de verschillende manieren van witwassen van geld die verband houden met de illegale mijnbouwactiviteiten type. De plaatsvervangend officier bij de Dienst Openbaar Procesrecht van Suriname Rita Sitaram haalde aan dat, als iemand de mijnbouwwet overtreden heeft, artikel 71 van de mijnbouwwet ter sprake komt. Daarin is aangegeven dat werk verrichten zonder vergunning in de mijnbouwsector strafbaar is. Maar deze wet mag niet zonder de wet economische delicten gehanteerd worden.
De Braziliaanse Federale politie attaché in Suriname, Daniel Ladeira Carvalho, heeft gesproken over de illegale goudmijning in Brazilië. Ook hij legde de nadruk op het gebruik van kwik binnen de goudmijning dat heel gevaarlijk is. Genevieve Wijngaarde, een Minerale Geo-wetenschapper bij het Ministerie van Natuurlijke Hulpbronnen van Suriname, vertelde over de verschillende situaties die zich in de goudsector afspelen.
Op de 2e dag van deze Nationale workshop ging het over bestrijding van de georganiseerde criminaliteit in mijnbouwsector Suriname. De inleiders waren Delicia Sastrodihardjo van de FIU Suriname, de algemeen directeur, Guyana Gold-bestuur Eondrene Thompson, Eric Canet de Milieupolitie-onderzoeker, en hoofd van het OCLAESP-team in Cayenne, Frans-Guyana, de parlementariër Ronny Aloema en als laatst Jimmy Reece Adjunct-commissaris, technisch geologie en mijnbouwcommissie van Guyana.
Deze inleiders hebben het gehad over de ervaring en werkwijze in de landen Suriname, Frans-Guyana en Guyana met als onderwerpen: de analyse van de informatie die melders uit de mijnbouwsector naar de FIU sturen, de goudproductieketen- en goudexperts in Guyana, onderzoekscapaciteiten gericht op up- en downstream-netwerken; toepassing van de wettelijke kaders van de mijnbouw in Suriname en tot slot de manier en invloed van illegale mijnbouw in Guyana.
Deze workshop die voor de publieke sector bestemd was is afgesloten met een certificaat uitgereikt door de minister van Justitie en Politie, Kenneth Amoksi. Op vrijdag 14 juni 2024 is de laatste workshop en die is voor de private sector.
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Climate Crossfire: From Gaza to Ukraine, How War & Military Spending Accelerate Climate Chaos
"Broadcasting from COP28 in Dubai as Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza, Democracy Now! investigates how militarism and war fuel the climate crisis. “The jets, the tanks, the bombs, the missiles, all of these things that we are seeing raining down on people, they’re all fossil fuel-dependent,” says Deborah Burton, co-author of a new report that shows increased spending by NATO nations will divert millions of dollars from climate finance while increasing greenhouse gas emissions. “We are absolutely going in the wrong direction.” Shirine Jurdi, a women, peace and security expert with close colleagues in Gaza, lays out how women are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis and the global war machine. “If we want to talk about real impacts and outputs out of this COP, we really need to look at militarization.”
DEBORAH BURTON: "I mean, I think the first thing I want to say, sitting here alongside Shirine, is, I don’t think we can be seeing a more extreme example of a war machine in operation than what it is we’re seeing and hearing from Gaza. I just want to say that Israel is the 15th-largest military spender in the world, and it’s spending $24 billion a year on its military. And you’re seeing this let rip on a population that really cannot defend themselves."
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We’re broadcasting from COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai.
As Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza, we turn now to look at how militarism and war fuels the climate crisis. A new report warns that increased spending by NATO nations will divert millions of dollars from climate finance while increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
We’re joined now by two guests. Shirine al-Jurdi is a women, peace and security expert from Lebanon, member of the MENA — Middle East North Africa — task force with the Women and Gender Constituency at COP28. She’s also a member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Lebanon and the MENA and regional liaison officer at the Middle East and North Africa Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. And Deborah Burton is here. She’s co-founder of Tipping Point North South. She leads their Transform Defense project, focused on military emissions and spending, climate change and climate finance, co-author of the report, “Climate Crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military spending targets contribute to climate breakdown,” published with the Transnational Institute.
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Deborah [Burton], let’s begin with you.
DEBORAH BURTON: OK.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about what you have found in this report. We’re going to go specifically to the conflict just hours from us right now, in Gaza, and what that means. But broadly, talk about the link between NATO, war and climate change.
DEBORAH BURTON: I mean, I think the first thing I want to say, sitting here alongside Shirine, is, I don’t think we can be seeing a more extreme example of a war machine in operation than what it is we’re seeing and hearing from Gaza. I just want to say that Israel is the 15th-largest military spender in the world, and it’s spending $24 billion a year on its military. And you’re seeing this let rip on a population that really cannot defend themselves.
So, what we’ve been working on with Transnational Institute and Stop Wapenhandel in the Netherlands is this report, “Climate Crossfire.” “Climate Crossfire” is actually a companion piece to a report we wrote last year before COP, and that was looking generally at how military spending accelerates climate breakdown. So that was the general picture. This year we’re looking — we’re focusing on NATO.
NATO is a 31-member-strong military alliance. And just to give people a kind of general little bit of context to help orientate themselves, global military spending now is $2.2 trillion per annum. It’s rising. It’s risen something like 20% in the past 10 years. NATO accounts for half of that, so $1.1 trillion per annum accrues to NATO. And this is all before Ukraine and Gaza, so this is all going to start taking a sharp incline up.
Generally, in terms of emissions, the global military are estimated on patchy data, because they don’t fully report, but something in the order of 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. And again, to put that in context, that is more than the 52 countries of the African continent, that come in at — that’s somewhere in the order of 3.5 to 4%. That’s the total greenhouse gas emission burden — it’s hardly a burden — for 52 countries. The global military come in at 5.5%.
So, to look to NATO, to come to NATO, which, as I said, is a 31-member military alliance, accounts for half of military spending, in terms of emissions, it currently would rank — if it were a country, NATO would come in at 40, the equivalent of the Netherlands, for example. And with its 2% of GDP request, what NATO are asking their 31 members to do is to increase on what they’re spending now and get their military spending, annual military spending, up to 2% or more of GDP. OK?
AMY GOODMAN: In fact, actually, President Putin is expected to be here in Dubai tomorrow.
DEBORAH BURTON: "What can we say? I mean, you know, it’s clear here at COP, and certainly in terms of this issue that we’re working on here, the military emissions story. And it’s primarily because of Ukraine, and now with Gaza. Suddenly, we are able to get some oxygen of publicity — you know, we’re here now talking about this — because of this collision between conflict, wars, conflict-related emissions — which, I should say, is not in that 5.5% estimate. This estimate of 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions accruing to the military does not include conflict, doesn’t include conflict.
So, with Ukraine and now Gaza, we are able to illustrate, to show, to, as I say, bring oxygen and publicity to the fact that there is an absolute correlation between military spending — so, the more you spend on your big-ticket, gas-guzzling, fossil fuel — totally fossil fuel-reliant hardware — the jets, the tanks, the bombs, the missiles — all of these things that we are seeing raining down on people, they are all fossil fuel dependent. There is an absolute correlation between military spending and the emissions that come from that hardware. And we are going in the wrong direction. We are absolutely going in the wrong direction. And the NATO 2% target, for example, is completely counter to all climate targets."
AMY GOODMAN: And this is from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: “Due to technological developments affecting the potency of bombs, the explosives dropped on Gaza may be twice as powerful as a nuclear bomb.”
SHIRINE JURDI: Exactly. That was even like two weeks ago, before the ceasefire. So, I could see — like, now I was even scared to see, because, I mean, it’s too — you cannot even watch these bombs that are being — yesterday I was watching — I follow several journalists, and I was watching her, and she was saying, “Now this is a massacre. If these, like now, bombs are being used while we are told to go to the south to a safe space, but there’s no safe space, so this is meant to terminate us.”
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