The EU-Chile Trade Agreement, extractivism and human rights
by Patricia Muñoz Cabrera
The EU-Chile Agreement comes at a time of unprecedented environmental damage and social tensions caused by successive waves of resource extraction in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile. Already in its 2016 Outlook, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development wrote that “Chile’s natural resource-based economic model was starting to show its limits.”
In this paper, presented at a WIDE+ workshop in May 2024 in Paris and later on at the IAFFE Annual Conference 2024 in Rome, Patricia Muñoz Cabrera critically assesses the incorporation of gender […]
Survival amidst Gold Mining and Conflict
A Report from Sudan
by Sara Omer Hamad Mohamed
Sudan is the third-largest gold producer in Africa. However, a big portion of the gold production is believed to be smuggled out of the country, with proceeds often used to fund the ongoing internal conflict. The illegitimate gold trade has also helped establish a relationship between the Sudanese RSF militia and the Russian Wagner Group, with Sudanese gold serving as a funding source for Russian interests, including the war in Ukraine.
The economic and political situation in addition to climate change intensifies the existing challenges faced by women involved in artisanal gold mining in […]