RIMM - International Women and Mining Network

This section contains documents on gender based mining issues from different sources. This is an attempt to develop a comprehensive database of related articles on gender, indigenous communities and mining for easy access.

International

Women and child miners
2007: Out of sight – girls in mining

Australia

2006:Homelessness in High Income Mining Towns and the Opportunity for Big Business to Play a Part

Bolivia

2005: Searching Through the Scraps

Burma

2007: Turning Treasure into Tears
2007: Valley of Darkness: Gold mining and militarization in Burma's Hugawng Valley

Canada

2002: Hardrock Mining and the Evolution of the Roles for Women
2000:Women Into Mining Jobs at Inco: Challenging the Gender Division of Labour

Guyana

2007: All that Glitters:Gold Mining in Guyana the Failure of Government Oversight and the Human Rights of Amerindian Communities

India

2008: Guidelines on abolition of child labour
2007: Roles and Status of Women in Extractive Industries in India: Making a Place for a Gender Sensitive Mining Development
Gender and Sustainable Development in Mining Sector In India
Need for enhancing capability of women in mining areas - Reporting from the Indian case
2006: Gendered Livelihoods in Small Mines and Quarries in India: Living on the edge
2006: Do media have a space? For women trafficked in mining in Jharkhand
2006: Engendering Mining Communities: Examining the Missing Gender Concerns in Coal Mining Displacement and Rehabilitation in India
2005: Our Mining Children
2005: Ravages through India
2004: The Impacts of Mining on Water Sources and Women’s Health in India
2003: Women in Mining Struggles in India: The Invisibility of Gender Concerns in Mining Struggles
1997: Samata Judgement

Indonesia

2007: Engendering Mining Advocacy Work in Kalimantan : Challenges, Conflicts and Opportunities
2003: Hidden hands: Women in Mining Community in West Sumatra, Indonesia
2001: Human Rights and the Mining Sector in Indonesia: A Baseline Study

Kenya

2001: Gender and Mining In Kenya: The Case of Mukibira Mines in Vihiga District

Kyrgyzstan

"Gold" future or sustainable development?

Mongolia

2007: A Glimpse into Monglia's Mining Communities
2006: Mining and Human Rights in Mongolia
2002: Herders' Property Rights Vs. Mining In Mongolia

Papua New Guinea

2007: Women in Mining
2006: Barrick's Dirty Secret: Mining in Papua New Guinea
2006: Gender of the Gold: an Ethnographic and Historical Account of Women's Involvement in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Mount Kaindi, Papua New Guinea
2005: The Shifting Gender of Gold: Assessing Female Participation in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining among the Anga of Mount Kaindi, Papua New Guinea

Philippines

Resisting Large Mining in Conner; A Struggle for Land, Life and Resources
2007: Our Stories of Resistance Against Large Mining in the Cordillera

Turkey

2005: Case Of Taskin And Others V. Turkey

General

2006: May god give us Chaos, so that we may Plunder’: A critique of ‘resource curse’ and conflict theories
2006: And I Feel Like I’m Dying from Mining for Gold”: Disability, Gender, and the Mining Community,1920-1950 (North America)
2002: Tunnel Vision Women, Mining and Communities An anthology edited by Ingrid Macdonald and Claire Rowland
1996: Fact Finding Mission to Three Guiana Shield Countries Brazil (Amapa),Surinam, Guyana

International Policies and Guidelines

2001: An ILO code of practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work
2006: Tripartitie Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy
A workplace policy on HIV/AIDS:what it should cover
2000: The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises