16.8 Human Rights Watch: Private mining companies perpetrating shocking abuses ............... 36 17 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION DUE TO UNREGULATED MINING ........................................... 36 18 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................................. 38 18.1 Good governance could restore a decade of economic ruin ................................................ 38 Glossary of Acronyms ACR African Consolidated Resources ARDA Agricultural Rural Development Authority CIO Central Intelligence Organisation CRD Centre for Research and Development EPO Exclusive Prospecting Order GW Global Witness HRW Human Rights Watch KP Kimberley Process KPCS Kimberley Process Certification Scheme MDC Movement for Democratic Change Party MMCZ Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe MMMD Ministry of Mines and Mining Development PAC Partnership Africa Canada RBZ Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe SADC Southern African Development Community SARW Southern Africa Resource Watch ZANU PF Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front ZELA Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association ZMDC Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation

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