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Category Archive: Human rights

INTERVIEW: MINE MAGAZINE – Home to roost: understanding corporate liability in mining

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Transnational parent companies are increasingly being hauled to court for grievances occurring at their subsidiary’s overseas operations. Currently, […]

May 1, 2019 Energy and Climate Change, Human rights, Journalism

FEATURE: MINE Magazine – Rwandan miners want to scrap traceability fees, but are they justified?

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The Rwandan Mining Association is calling for a locally implemented due diligence and traceability system to be scrapped, […]

January 7, 2019 Human rights, Journalism

Blog: The Wind in Her Hair – Islam, Compulsory Hijab, Western Feminists and All Sorts of Related Musings

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A few weeks ago, columns and Facebook comment feeds flooded with talk about the burqa, which is a […]

September 2, 2018 Feminism, Human rights

FEATURE: MINE Magazine – #MeTooMining: tackling sexual misconduct in the mining industry

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Susan Lomas has worked in the mining industry for over 30 years and has experienced sexual harassment first-hand. […]

May 2, 2018 Energy and Climate Change, Feminism, Human rights

FEATURE: MINE Magazine – Legalising North East India’s mica mines

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Around 20,000 children work in North East India’s highly dangerous and illegal mica mines. The Indian Government has […]

July 18, 2017 Energy and Climate Change, Human rights

FEATURE: MINE Magazine – Mining in Mali: balancing prospects and problems

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Already a significant gold producer, Mali’s mining sector is poised for further growth after the country’s Chamber of […]

July 10, 2017 Energy and Climate Change, Human rights

BLOG: Southbank’s WoW Festival: Opportunity, ambition, Islam and male feminists

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On Friday, I waited outside the Southbank Centre, for a full forty-five minutes in the fresh morning air, […]

March 12, 2017 Feminism, Human rights, Personal Experience

Blog: #Listentothewomen stories from refugee women

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“If I was a man, the worst that would happen to me is I would be beaten and […]

September 27, 2016 Human rights

Blog: The Resource Curse – the plunder of Africa’s natural resources

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  Tom Burgis, an investigative journalist for the Financial Times, spent six years researching his new book ‘The […]

April 1, 2015 Human rights

Blog: Update on humanitarian situation in Thar

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I spoke to UNICEF who provided me with some information about the current situation in Thar – which […]

February 9, 2015 Human rights

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