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"Our country is rich in natural resources; we are the fourth country in the world with very high biodiversity and we'd like to look after that.... so all I can say is, we are struggling for the justice of our people and against the destruction that some one else created on our lands"
- Matilda, - Paua New Gunea

 

 

Reports

 

2010: RIMM Strategy Meeting in Baguio City, the Philippines: 5th and 6th of July 2010

2010: India’s Childhood in the "Pits" - A Report on the Impacts of Mining on Children in India

2010: National Consultation on Impacts of Mining on Women in India, 12th –13th February, 2010, Orissa

2010: Summary of discussions with Ministry of Mines, Government of India by RIMM

2009: Consultation on Women, Mining and Development: 16-19 March 2009 - A Skill-share Report English    Hindi

2008: RIMM at AWID Forum

2008: Consultation on the Impacts of Mining on Children in India

2007: Statement of Pacific Women and Mining conference

2004: The 3rd International Women and Mining Conference successfully conducted from 1-9 October, 2004 in Visakhapatnam, India with participants hailing from 21 countries of Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Pacific, and Asia, including women from all regions of India. The conference presentations ranged from issues of displacement of tribal communities in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, India and Australia; the health impacts of mining due to the cyanide spill in the gold mines of Kyrgyztan; the problems of radiation the uranium mines; stories of the conflict diamonds of Sierra Leone; the struggles of the mining trade unions of South Africa, Canada and Zimbabwe; the child and women labourers involved in gold-panning and artisanal mining in Nicaragua, and Peru; the pollution of rivers in Ghana ...... Conference Report (in PDF format)

2000: The Second International Women and Mining Conference Declaration