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Research report

Recharging Community Consent: Mining companies, battery minerals and the battle to break from the past

22/09/2023

2 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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With mining set to expand as part of the sweeping energy transition, it is imperative that future mining only proceed with the full support and consent of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities. In the first policy brief of its kind to focus on the public policy commitments of mining companies extracting five key transition minerals […]

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Journal article

The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

09/11/2017

18 pages long

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The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

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This article presents the findings from research conducted by Pauktuutit,an Inuit women’s organisation, and the University of British Colombiainto the gendered social impacts of resource extraction inQamani’tuaq, Nunavut Territory, Canada. The research used a range ofdifferent methods and contributes to a growing body of globalevidence on the social impacts of resource extraction on indigenouswomen and […]

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Journal article

Indigenous women’s anti-mining activism: a gendered analysis of the El Estor struggle in Guatemala

09/11/2017

14 pages long

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Indigenous women’s anti-mining activism: a gendered analysis of the El Estor struggle in Guatemala

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Focusing on the struggle against the Fenix mine in El Estor Guatemala, this article argues that women are disproportionately affected by resource development; and that women’s activism against mining is also gendered, in the sense that they are often distinct from men’s strategies and are rooted in women’s experiences as women, and as indigenous women […]

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Research report

The Weak Link: The role of local institutions in accountable natural resource management in Peru, Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania

15/04/2016

9 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractive industries present potentially large opportunities for developing countries. However, advocates for responsible natural resource management are often frustrated by the fact that best-practice policy prescriptions are frequently ignored by governments in developing counties. As a result, there has been a growing effort to understand how policy decisions are made, and how political and economic […]

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Briefing paper

Mines and Minerals Bill: Disempowering the community

24/03/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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For over five years, the central government has been in the process of framing and enacting new legislation to develop and regulate India’s mines and minerals. However, within the span of less than two months the NDA government published an Ordinance both introducing and passing a new version of a Bill in both Houses of […]

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Briefing note

India’s Mining Regulation: A chance to correct course

01/08/2012

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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India’s natural wealth risks turning into a curse if the proposed Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill fails to address extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and weak rule of law in mining regions. Oxfam India and the network of civil society organizations in India, ‘mines, minerals & PEOPLE’, urges decision makers and parliamentarians to prioritise […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Women, Communities and Mining: The gender impacts of mining and the role of gender impact assessment

01/12/2009

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This report informs mining company staff of the potential gender impacts of mining projects and introduces some tools and approaches that they can use to conduct a gender impact assessment of these projects. These tools should be of particular interest to community relations advisors as they are designed to help incorporate gender into community assessment […]

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Recharging Community Consent: Mining companies, battery minerals and the battle to break from the past

The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

Indigenous women’s anti-mining activism: a gendered analysis of the El Estor struggle in Guatemala

The Weak Link: The role of local institutions in accountable natural resource management in Peru, Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania

Mines and Minerals Bill: Disempowering the community

India’s Mining Regulation: A chance to correct course

Women, Communities and Mining: The gender impacts of mining and the role of gender impact assessment