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Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Extractives Industry Never Achieved Its Potential: SIGAR
International
The US Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) in a new report says that Afghanistan’s extractives industry never achieved its potential, despite years of US…
Gendered Violence Martying Filipina Environmental Defenders
Briefs & Development
This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with…
Standing Firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Briefs & Development
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world,…
Work-Parenthood Conflicts at the Operator and Professional Levels in Chile's Mining Industry: A Gender Analysis
Briefs & Development
The aim of this article is to determine, from a gender and class perspective, how mothers who work in mining operations experience the tensions associated…
Gender in Mining
Briefs & Development
Questions of equal treatment regarding gender are gaining prominence in the mining industry, which has been traditionally male-dominated.
Gender Sensitive Responses to Climate Change in Nigeria: The Role of Multinationals’ Corporate Social Responsibility in Oil Host Communities
Library
The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the multinational oil companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to…
Financing the Unbanked: How Community Savings Groups Can Create Pathways for Legal Artisanal Gold in Burkina Faso
Country Assessments
This paper explores the connections between financial inclusion, formalization of artisanal miners, and illicit trade. The research demonstrates why financial inclusion is a crucial component…
Peace Studies and the Limits to Growth
Briefs & Development
Scientists have issued increasingly dire warnings about the present and future danger posed by ecological overshoot. Peace scholars’ entrée into this discourse is often through…
Environment and Security in the 21st Century
Briefs & Development
Environment and Security positions itself as an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed journal responding to a broader interest in the topic. It is committed to theoretical and…
Gender and Sustainability Reporting – Critical Analysis of Gender Approaches in Mining
Briefs & Development
The mining sector remains economically significant across the globe. With a number of growing sustainability concerns (from environmental waste and pollution to social and ethical…
Pakistan: Climate and Gender Responsive Readiness Program in Pakistan
International
IUCN launches Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP) with Fatima Jinnah Women University as part of its Academic- Climate and Gender responsive readiness program in…
Liberia: Gov’t Revenue from Extractive Industries Reaches US$84.6M
International
Government revenue from the extractive industries in 2021 stood at US$84.6 million, a report from the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) has revealed. The…
Afghanistan: Statement on Afghanistan by Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director
International
The comprehensive onslaught on women’s rights in Afghanistan is unmatched in the world today. The Taliban’s latest announcement of the closure of universities for women, effectively…
Conflict Minerals: Industry Shows Zero Improvement on Conflict Minerals Sourcing
International
In the early days of conflict minerals reporting, it was in many cases impossible to tell how much of a company's supply chain was conformant…
ASEAN Launches Plan to Promote Women’s Security in Southeast Asia
International
Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Today, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and UN Women, launched…
Kenya: UN’s Highest Environmental Honour Celebrates Ecosystem Restoration
International
Nairobi, 22 November 2022 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced its 2022 Champions of the Earth, honouring a conservationist, an enterprise, an economist, a women’s…
Leaders and Activists at COP27 Say the Gender Gap in Climate Action is Being Bridged Too Slowly
International
Research increasingly shows that global warming impacts women far more gravely than men, but they are still left out of the leadership and benefits of…
Afghanistan: Coalmining in Afghanistan – in Pictures [Photos]
International
From men in their 60s to boys as young as 10, hundreds of miners work every day in Chinarak for just a few euros.
Liberia: Liberian Senate Raises Concerns over Mining Sector amid Widespread Illicit Activities
International
The Liberian Senate is seeking information from the Ministry of Mines and Energy regarding the operation of the small to medium-scale mining sub-sector. This is…
COP27: Empower Women to Combat Climate Change
International
Across the world, women depend more on, yet have less access to, natural resources.
Climate Equity and Gender Equity Are Two of the Most Important Issues of Our Time – Says Africa Soft Power
International
Africa exists as a paradox. On the climate front, the continent contributes little to the world’s changing climate but pays the highest price globally. On…
UAE: Masdar Calls Upon Global Community at COP27 to Pledge Support for Women Tackling Climate Change
International
Ahead of COP27, Masdar launches global #IAmWiSER campaign calling on policymakers, industry leaders, and the general public to pledge support for women as agents of sustainable change.
Yemen: Women Must Lead the Way Out Yemen’s Climate and Conflict Crises
International
A new report surveys the work that women-led organizations on the ground are doing to promote peace through climate awareness.
Sudan: Sudanese Refinery Resumes Full Operations after ‘Sabotage’
International
An oil refinery in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum resumed operations following a brief halt due to an act of “sabotage” on one of its…
DRC: Congo Improves Extractive Sector Transparency but More Needed – Anti-Graft Body
International
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made progress in implementing transparency in its extractive mining sector but needs to do more in publishing contracts…
Guatemala: Guatemalan Women Reinvent Agrobusiness
International
Doris* feels strongly about women being able to earn a living. She is president of one of the savings and credit groups in Chamaiq — a…
Conflict Minerals: Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
International
Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of…
DRC: China Sends Criminal Experts to Halt Kidnappings in Mineral-Rich Democratic Republic of the Congo
International
As its alarm grows over the safety of Chinese citizens working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s high-stakes mining industry, Beijing is deploying criminal…
Nepal: Nepali Farmers Diversify Their Income Streams Amidst Climate Crisis
International
In the aftermath of intense rains during Nepal’s 2019 monsoon season, farmer Geeta Tharu found her house submerged in a pool of water. The rains…
Timor-Leste: East Timor Faces ‘Fiscal Cliff’ without Gas Project, IMF Warns
International
East Timor faces a “fiscal cliff” next decade if the Greater Sunrise gas field north of Australia is not developed in the next few years,…