Women Pay Heavier Price for Big Dams

Mar 8, 2016 | Jamie Skinner
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Large dams are displacing thousands of people in West Africa in societies where women traditionally have few legal or customary rights to the natural resources on which they depend.

More than 15 years after the World Commission on Dams recognised that women faced disproportionate costs from relocation, interviews with women in Ghana and Niger reveal that women continue to bear an unequal burden – and communities are losing out as a consequence.