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“Women
in mining communities experience harassment by businessmen,
mining contractors, company security guards and government
soldiers around the mining areas. Domestic violence, rape
and prostitution have increased and women are at heightened
risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and other STD infections from
a transient male workforce”
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Upcoming
Events |
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CRC - Sierra Leone: May/June
2008
UK,
September/October 2008
CEDAW: UK, June/July 2008
Burma, Ecuador, Mongolia, Canada and Kyrgyz Republic,
October 2008
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'The
Power of Movements', the 11th AWID International Forum
on Women's Rights in Development at Cape Town, South Africa
- 14-17th November 2008.
"Eyes
on the Future, Ears to the ground: women Activists from
mining affected communities share strategies, lessons
and challenges.
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International
Strategy Meeting on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
and ESCR-Net General Assembly at Nairobi, Kenya from 1-4th
December 2008.
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