Women Impacted by Mining
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About Us

Who We are

WIM is challenging destructive extractivism and proposing extractivist system that ensure gender justice.

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.

Mission and Vision

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.

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.