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A large-scale chrome mine in Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam

What will it take to stop the killing of land rights activists?

Scott Sellwood

September 18th, 2018 Inequality, Land rights

Mining companies and governments need to understand and respect the right to free, prior, and informed consent. The lives of land rights activists are on the line. New research from …

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MiningMining rightsSouth AfricaZimbabwe
Wend-Kouni, from Rouko village, Burkina Faso, digs for gold. Ollivier Girad/CIFOR

No environmental justice without gender justice

Caroline Sweetman

November 9th, 2017 Gender, Gender & Development Journal, General, Natural Resources

Gender equality and women’s rights are core to attaining sustainable, just human development. Editor, Caroline Sweetman, introduces the natural resource justice issue of the Gender & Development journal. 2017 is …

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EnvironmentExtractives industryMining
Witnesses to the violence

Renewed violence around Las Bambas mining project: Will we learn from past mistakes?

Miguel Levano

November 30th, 2016 Governance, Land rights

Copper mining in Las Bambas, Peru has sparked new violence as the communities surrounding the mine are bypassed again by the Peruvian government and mining company, MMG, on decisions that …

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Extractives industryHuman rightsIndigenous womenLas BambasMiningPeru
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