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The
3rd International Women and Mining Conference successfully
conducted from 1-9 October, 2004 in Visakhapatnam, India with participants
hailing from 21 countries of Africa, North and South America, Europe, the
Pacific, and Asia, including women from all regions of India. The
conference presentations ranged from issues of displacement of tribal
communities in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, India and Australia; the
health impacts of mining due to the cyanide spill in the gold mines of
Kyrgyztan; the problems of radiation the uranium mines; stories of the
conflict diamonds of Sierra Leone; the struggles of the mining trade
unions of South Africa, Canada and Zimbabwe; the child and women labourers
involved in gold-panning and artisanal mining in Nicaragua, and Peru; the
pollution of rivers in Ghana
The
following are the declaration, statements made and some papers presented at
the time of conference:
Declaration
Statement
Conference
Photos
Photo
Exhibition
Conference
Report (in PDF format)
English
Hindi
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