a) failure to address gender inequality in the sector whether in relation to ownership, management positions or core mining roles; b) lack of reference to measures addressing gendered impacts of mining, which include the loss of livelihoods experienced by women who are dispossessed, due to mining activities; c) impact of mining on the quality and availability of water and on health due to environmental degradation; Absence of parameters for implementing the requirement that companies have to take measures to improve the housing and living conditions of workers. IV. v. ensure effective environmental monitoring and inspection of mining operations to prevent the recurrence of hazardous acid in mine drainage; report on the steps taken to implement the recommendation of the Marikina Commission of Inquiry and to address the underlying factors that precipitated the massacre; and vi. report on the extent to which affected communities have made use of their privileges for participating in mining prospects and ventures provided for in the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act. Cooperation with the Commission 59. The Government of South Africa should: i. authorize the Commission to undertake a promotional mission to the country; 11. provide in its next Periodic Report up-to-date statistics on activities of institutions with a human rights mandate; and in. inform the Commission, in its next Periodic Report of the measures taken to address the above issues of concern and to ensure the effective implementation of the recommendations contained in the present Concluding Observations. Adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights at its 20th Extra-Ordinary Session held from 9to 18 June 2016, in Banjul, Islamic Republic of The Gambia. 29 | P a g e