This podcast introduces Payal Sampat and the No Dirty Gold Campaign.
Gold mining is one of the most destructive industrial activities on the planet. It leaves communities with human rights abuses, contaminated drinking water, and degraded ecosystems.
Gold isn’t the sparkling symbol of love and affection when it is also associated with, and has come at the price of human rights abuses, indigenous rights violations, poisoned water, air and land. This campaign targeted major jewelry companies such as Cartier, Tiffany and Company, Zales in the U.S. to draw attention to this issue and to pressure them to require their gold suppliers to meet “the Golden Rules” which over 100 jewelry companies publicly committed to do over the course of the campaign.
Interviewee:
Payal Sampat
Podcast Title:
Campaign Director, Earthworks
Podcast Campaign:
No Dirty Gold Campaign v. Jewelers