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This
publication is a step towards building an awareness of the challenges and
struggles experienced by women in places where companies are extracting wealth
from the depths of the earth. The perspectives of these outspoken women on
mining are rarely heard in international media, court rooms, parliamentary
legislatures, or international policy development forums.Women provide accounts
of the destructive impacts of the extractive industries on their health and
livelihoods—and on that of their communities. They also call for a bold
re-visioning of the current unsustainable industrial practices exhausting the
earth’s finite natural resources.
