Needs and priorities of Indigenous Peoples and local communities with regard to the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

This report was developed in response to decision MC-4/4 by the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, at its fourth meeting, where it requested the Secretariat “to compile views on the needs and priorities of indigenous peoples and local communities with regard to the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining”.