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Company Annoucements:The International Alliance On Natural Resources In Africa Invites You To A Series Of Events On Resource Extraction’s Impacts On Women Farmers And Community Members During The Month Of October 2013

4th October 2013

By: Creamer Media Reporter

  

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The extraction of natural resources, combined with mega water and energy projects, are fuelling the African growth trajectory. Sub-Saharan Africa’s significant reserves of oil and natural gas, and rich deposits of mineral resources make it a key player in a global mining boom. Yet more than a third of the world’s extreme poor still live in Sub-Saharan Africa and this is still the only region in the world where the number of poor people has risen steadily.

Peasant and working class women in Africa are least likely to enjoy the fruits of economic growth, and they carry the disproportionate burden of the numerous negative impacts of the extractives industries. These include land and water grabs; degradation and pollution of natural resources critical to subsistence and small-scale food production; rising levels of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases linked to prostitution and transactional sex; violenceagainst women; and increased unpaid labour demands associated with the ill-health of mineworkers and community members exposed to air and water pollution.

WoMin is a regional platform, sponsored by IANRA, which unifies African women in thefight against resource extraction which destroys land, eco-systems, livelihoods and lives.  WoMin seeks to advance alternatives from the perspective of the majority of Africa’s citizens – peasant and working class women – for a more just, equitable and eco-friendly African development agenda.

Between 5-6 October, WoMin will through solidarity field trips bear witness to land grabs from local communities by the Royal Bafokeng Nation in Rustenburg, and the impacts on local food production, and hear how the desperate living conditions of workers and community members in Marikana deeply impact women. In Witbank and Carolina, WoMin will witness the burning coal fields of abandoned mines in the Highveld, and hear about the impacts of Carolina’s poisoned waters on the health and well-being of its local citizens. And in Ekurhuleni, we will visit workers and communities that have been abandoned when mining operations cease. All of these devastating impacts of extractives activities have differential and disproportionate impacts upon women because of their role in domestic food provisioning, the care of sick household members, and their responsibilities for cooking, cleaning and washing.

The official launch of WoMin will take place on 9th October, 18h15 at the Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill where representatives from the continent and elsewhere in the world will testify to the impact of minerals and natural resources extraction on women, and their struggles to counter these effects and propose development alternatives.  

From 7-11 October the WoMin regional conference will be held at Stay City, Berea in Johannesburg with representation from 16 countries in Africa. There will also be participants from Accion Ecologica in Ecuador, the MST in Brazil which has been acting as the secretariat to the National Movement for Popular Sovereignty against Mining in Brazil, the International Women and Mining Network (RIMM), and the indigenous anti-extractivist Idle No More movement in North America. UN Women and a host of civil society bodies working on extractives in South Africa and the region will also be present.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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