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Artisanal mining, conflict and sexual violence in Eastern DRC

Academic paper aiming to fill the gap on the links between mining, conflict and sexual violence by exploring how the artisanal and small-scale mining and sexual violence are related in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Results indicate that women living in close proximity to ASM are indeed more likely to experience sexual violence by partners and others.

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The effects of resource extraction on Inuit women and their families: evidence from Canada

Academic article presenting findings from a research on the gendered social impacts of resource extraction in Qamani’tuaq, Nunavut Territory, Canada. It reveals the complex effects of resource extraction on Inuit women’s lives, at the individual, family, and community levels, including instances of gender-based violence (GBV).

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Negotiating Gender: Experience from Western Australian Mining Industry

Academic article on the negative impacts of the mining industry in Western Australia. Authors argue that mining areas have become men’s towns with little opportunities for women and local younger generations. A gender analysis based on ecofeminism and feminist political economy reveals the urgent need for the mining industry to transform itself in order to meet sustainability imperatives.

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Gendering the field: Towards sustainable livelihoods for mining communities

Compilation of academic papers that were presented at an international workshop on ʹMining, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoodsʹ in 2008. These articles highlight key issues and implications of integrating gender to foster sustainable livelihoods in both large-scale and informal, artisanal and small-scale mining across different regions. Gender-based violence (GBV) is identified in many of these articles, in connection with extractives.

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The resource boom’s underbelly: Criminological impacts of mining development

Academic article on the social impacts of the increase of extractive industries in remote areas in Australia. These negative impacts include a rise in violence and crime, including gender-based violence (GBV).

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Extractive industries as sites of supernormal profits and supernormal patriarchy?

Academic article that considers how patriarchal power relations between men and women are produced and reproduced within extractive industries, and examines the idea that the ‘supernormal profits’ to be made there encourage the development of ‘supernormal patriarchy’ that can exacerbate gender-based violence (GBV).

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‘”Because I am a man, I should be gentle to my wife and my children”: positive masculinity to stop gender-based violence in a coastal district in Vietnam’

Academic article that explores the pilot project , the Responsible Men Club, developed and implemented in a coastal district in Vietnam from 2010 to 2012 to work with men to stop domestic violence. Through men’s empowerment and peer support, the project aimed to construct and encourage a positive, non-violence version of masculinity.

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Violence, gender and WASH: spurring action on a complex, under-documented and sensitive topic

Academic article that provides a review of the existing evidence and practice on the intersection of gender, violence and WASH. It argues that there is a need for more systematic, reliable, and ethically conducted monitoring and learning on this topic to build a more solid evidence base, improved policy and programming.

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Fishing for justice: Human rights, development, and fisheries sector reform

Academic article highlighting human rights abuses, including forced evictions, detention without trial, child labour, forced labour and unsafe working conditions, and violence and personal security, including gender-based violence (GBV), as key areas of concern in fishing communities in India, the Philippines, Cambodia and South Africa.

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Perceived impact of a land and property rights program on violence against women in rural Kenya: A qualitative investigation

Academic article focusing on a community-led land and property rights program in two rural provinces in western Kenya, designed to respond to women’s property rights violations and to reduce violence against women and HIV risks at the community level.

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Women’s land ownership and relationship power: A mixed methods approach to understanding structural inequities and violence against women

Academic article that examines novel approaches taken by women in Nicaragua and Tanzania, regions where owning land is a marker of dominance. Findings suggest that when women own land, they gain power within their relationships and are less likely to experience domestic violence.

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“She mixes her business”: HIV transmission and acquisition risks among female migrants in western Kenya

Academic article aimed at characterizing the contexts and processes that may facilitate HIV acquisition and transmission among migrant women in the Kisumu area of Nyanza Province, Kenya. Fish trade is identified as one of the sectors in which many migrants engage in transactional sex.

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