1. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Defending Our Lives, Demanding Our Right RIMM International Women and Mining Network/Red Internacional Mujeres y Mineria (RIMM)

2. Updates and Trends in the International Mining Situation Traditional and new player of mining companies (USA, Canada, Australia, S. Africa,India, China) dominate the global mining scene. Gold, base metals, diamonds & platinum group elements are the most explored for & developed globally

4. Dynamic Mapping and Reportage on Human Righ Violations in Mining Cases

5. United States Colombia Bolivia Sierra Leone Sudan Nigeria Uganda The Congo Angola Zaire India Burma The Philippines West Papua Papua New Guinea United States Colombia Bolivia Sierra Leone Sudan Nigeria Uganda The Congo Angola Zaire India Burma The Philippines West Papua Papua New Guinea American mercenaries American mercenaries British mercenaries British mercenaries South African mercenaries South African mercenaries WHERE MINING TNCs HAVE USED MILITARY & MERCENARY FORCES

6. Continuing environmental problems Riverine disposals Marine dumping Tailings dams

7. Extractive Industries and Climate Change Indigenous peoples as a population most sensitive, vulnerable to climate change Between 1995 and 2015, roughly half the world’s gold will have come from indigenous peoples’ lands, much of it without their consent

8. climate crisis the respond: Offset +

9. One third of all mine workers in 25 key mining countries lost their jobs between 1985 and 2000 while output increased. Mining takes away subsistence farming and fishing livelihoods especially of poor, especially of women. Negative effects on status of women

10. Because current mining is unjust and destructive Increasing impacts of mining Many local campaigns Growth of support groups and networks nationally and internationally TNC companies affecting many people

11. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM About RIMM The International Women and Mining Network (RIMM) is a global network of women affected by mining activities Working since 1997 Members include: Mineworkers Indigenous women Women affected by mining Women activists Representing 28 countries across the globe

12. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM What We Do We work for the protection of women in communities affected by mining, particularly indigenous women We also work for the protection of women working in the mines and for dignified working conditions in the formal sector We work for elimination of child labour from the mining sector We exist to ensure that women affected by mining are seen and heard

13. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Why Women and Mining ? Need for a separate dialogue on women vis-à-vis mining Global experiences and impacts Gender equity: Collective perspectives from the network

14. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Why Women and Mining? Traditional myths concerning women Several contradictions, assumptions Women affected are largely indigenous/rural women, from socially/economically marginalized communities Women lack access to information, decision-making, grievance redressal and participation

15. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM National and International Mechanisms Governance institutions, policy and legal machinery not yet geared to address labor, social and institutional needs of women mine workers Low standards, legal safeguards, workplace policies for mineral sector UN mechanisms and commitments not fully respected eg.,: UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, CEDAW, UNHRC Business and human rights: an international debate

16. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Women Affected Indigenous women displaced from their territories/affected by loss of resources Poor women working in the mines and peripheral activities/unorganized/illegal/ informal mines Women employed in large companies Artisanal women mine workers and their children Women living around mine sites and downstream

17. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Global Experiences of Impact Collecting and understanding experiences of : Indigenous woman : mine planning, monitoring management, mine closure, rehabilitation and compensation. Woman mine workers in tradisional, artisanal and large scale mine.

18. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Gender Equity and the Extractive Industry

19. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Gender Equity and the Extractive Industry Any development project should be scrutinized from gender lens A gender sensitive cost benefit analysis and mine planning Recognizing the existing rights of women and ensuring their protection Enabling negotiations on behalf of women in communities for inclusion in large projects, ensuring their skills, participation, leadership and decision- making Strengthening skills, capacities, resources, technology and market access for artisanal women miners

20. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Involvement and consultation of women in project planning, monitoring, grievance redressal and mine closure concerns of women affected in a concrete and tangible manner for rehabilitation Assessment and recognition of pre-existing resources, livelihood base, incomes, usufructory rights of communities Ensure that existing economy is safeguarded and the new economy provides a minimum level of opportunities as that of existing economies Gender Equity and the Extractive Industry

21. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Continuous monitoring of health impacts on women and children Vertical and horizontal sensitization of gender impacts among governance institutions, state instrumentalities, corporate bodies and financial institutions, public and among communities themselves. Gender Equity and the Extractive Industry

22. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Legal and policy amendments to ensure the above in a gender sensitive manner Indigenous women’s right to free, prior and informed consent Women’s participation in governance and policy Gender Equity and the Extractive Industry

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25. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Indigneous women in Niyamgiri hills fighting against Vedanta (UK) -the Supreme court of India directed the government to first take consent of the people by organising the Gram Sabhas (village councils specially in indigenous areas) and the whole community in all the villages gave their unanimous opposition to the project- now it is cancelled In Rajasthan where there is small scale mining, the women have joined the cooperatives and they are doing their own mining

26. We don't sell what we do not create, we sell what we can create Mollo indigenous people, 2008

27. International Women and Mining Network - RIMM Asia regional meeting and maybe fact finding in Burma skill share with indigneous women in Cambodia and Vietnam Gender Equity and the Extractive Industry Planing 2013/2014