Women Impacted by Mining

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About Us

About Women Impacted By Mining

Women Impacted By Mining (WIM) was established in October 2015 in Kenya by a group of rural women who are survivors of Gender Based Violence in the Extractive mining-industry, with an aim to empower women around the vast Chinese Gold mines in the Lakeside Migori County to take control and defend their bodies, lands, livelihoods, natural resources and cultural heritage. Further, WIM empower and advocates for women rights by tackling gender-based violence, lobbying for policy and legal reforms and demanding that women’s voices are heard; working to end the discrimination that prevents women around the extractive Gold mines from accessing resources, economic opportunities, and decision-making forums; and helping women hold governments, Gold mining companies, and the financial institutions that support the sector to account for women right violations. WIM is challenging destructive extractivism and proposing extractivist system that ensure gender justice.

Our Vision

A just society where women have secure access to resources for life and livelihood and exercise full control over their bodies and development choices.

Our Mission

To ensure that gender-justice becomes a central issue in the mining sector reform efforts and that women’s-rights are more progressively realized.
What We Do

OUR WORK

  • Public Interest Litigation on Land expropriation without compensation, water pollution
  • Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC): Demanding the “Right to say No”!
  • Advocate ecologically responsive, climate just best practices and feminist economies alternatives for women impacted by mining in Migori.
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Call to Action.

Gold Mining projects are highly disruptive, with impacts on the environment, women’s livelihoods and gender-inequalities like;

  • HIV prevalence rates among women
  • High Poverty rates among women and girls
  • The impacts of mining are not gender-neutral
  • Lack of compensation compensation/benefits yet when mining damages the environment, it undermines women’s ability to provide food and clean water for their families
  • Women Safety and violence against women
  • Female mine workers often face discrimination, poor-working-conditions and unequal-pay for equal work
Valued Partners

We have partnered with more than 10 patners to help over 10k+ individuals