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"....Must
I laugh? Must I cry for you? Diamonds are a curse for Sierra
Leone, not a blessing"
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About
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History
of RIMM:
Red Internacional 'Mujeres y Mineria', or the International
Women and Mining Network (RIMM), is the first and only platform
that has brought women from different continents on this
very serious issue of mining and gender justice.
Red Internacional
'Mujeres y Mineria', or the International Women and Mining
Network (RIMM), is the first and only platform that has
brought women from different continents on this very serious
issue of mining and gender justice. The initiative taken
by some of the groups like the Cordillera People's Alliance,
Miningwatch, Cepromin and others since 1997 by organizing
three international conferences to highlight the condition
of women living and working in the mining regions and
to identify the diverse problems that they are being confronted
with under the new global economies, has led to the consolidation
of the meetings into the International Women and Mining
Network.
What started
as an initiative to explore the gender concerns in mining
took the role of a global platform for women exploited
by mining projects either as communities displaced or
as workers in highly exploitative working conditions.
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To
make visible the serious problems of women in mining
across countries, governments, NGOs, human rights groups,
trade unions, mining struggle groups and communities
and all others concerned with the exploitation of women
in mining.
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To stand as a strong global platform to fight for women's
rights vis-à-vis mining.
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To provide an opportunity to bring together women across
the world to share their experiences as mine workers,
women suffering and affected by mining and women concerned
with mining.
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To represent the voices, complaints and violations of
women affected by mining at global forums, trade unions,
national and local governments, civil societies and
international human rights organizations
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The network
has members from 28 countries from workers’
struggles, indigenous communities and civil society
groups campaigning against mining related exploitation.
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