Out of Africa
Reposted from the Globe and Mail Letters to the Editor, January 26, 2016 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/letters/jan-26-a-verdicts-message-plus-other-letters-to-the-editor/article28387177/ Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Alpha Barry says youth unemployment and poverty are among the key causes of extremism in West Africa (Mounties Use Cellphone Data In Bid To Track Architects Of Terrorist Attack – Jan. 25). He went on to pledge that Canadian mining companies – described a
What are the impacts of resource extraction on women?
Kairos is releasing a series of short videos to help us all better understand the gendered impacts of resource extraction. These three minute videos look at the the specific impacts that women, and especially indigenous women, face when they are threatened by resource extraction in their territory. Loss of land often results in loss of identity and culture and the social and economic impacts of mining have a unique role on women and families. Check out the videos and share
