{"id":80,"date":"2016-10-22T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/?p=80"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:29:05","slug":"new-report-documents-human-rights-abuses-for-women-in-artisanal-mining-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/2016\/10\/22\/new-report-documents-human-rights-abuses-for-women-in-artisanal-mining-in-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Documents Human Rights Abuses for Women in Artisanal Mining in DRC\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style2\">Channel grantee partner the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/wilpf\/\">Women&#8217;s International League for Peace &amp; Freedom (WILPF)<\/a>\u00a0launched a report on Oct. 20, 2016,\u00a0<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/wilpf.org\/wilpf-publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life at the Bottom of the Chain: Women in Artisanal Mines in DRC<\/a>, which documents gender discrimination, slavery-like conditions, deterioration of reproductive heath, violence, forced displacement, and sexual exploitation experienced by women in (and because of) artisanal mines in the DRC. As Madeleine Rees makes clear in the Huffington Post,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/5809c552e4b0b1bd89fdb0b5?timestamp=1477038478163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gender analysis needs to inform a treaty regulating business activities<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cWomen are among the most impacted by the insalubrious and precarious conditions in artisanal mining sites. They are also the most impacted by the militarisation of the sites stemming from the use of private and security forces.\u201d As she also explains, these kinds of abuses are exactly why a planned legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises needs to incorporate a strong gender lens throughout the drafting process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel grantee partner the\u00a0Women&#8217;s International League for Peace &amp; Freedom (WILPF)\u00a0launched a report on Oct. 20, 2016,\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,136,134,12],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-drc","tag-evawpwhrd","tag-ssa","tag-wilpf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9063,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/9063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}