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Sierra Leone: Empowering Women in Sierra Leone’s Mining Communities
A bill to regulate mining in Sierra Leone has just been passed by its parliament and is expected to be signed into law by the president...
Tanzania Case Study-Unsafe, Unequal Working Conditions
In Tanzania, Women represent up to 50% of the workforce in mines, however their contribution is not fairly rewarded. Women miners lack...
Kenya Case Study- Fair Share for Women Miners
In Kenya, ASM sector employs over 10000 workers, majorly informal and majority of them being women. The mining sector has immense...
Can African women benefit from mining? Yes, if they help set the rules.
Mining can be hazardous work, for anyone. But women face specific barriers that men don’t. They get paid less and face discrimination, in...
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