Mother Earth and Resource Extraction: Women Defending Land and Water

Reports on Latin America

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Amnesty International. 2016. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Gender, Indigenous rights, and energy development in northeast British Columbia, Canada."

Amnesty International. 2021. “Stop Burning Our Rights! What Governments And Corporations Must Do To Protect Humanity From The Climate Crisis.”

Association quebecoise des organismes de cooperation internationale; Inter-Council network: Provincial & Regional Councils for International Cooperation, 2019. "A Feminist Approach to Climate Justice." 

Bertinat, Pablo, Jorge Chemes, and Lyda Fernanda Forero. 2021. “Energy Transition: Contributions for Collective Reflection.” Transnational Institute and Taller Ecologista.

Carvajal, Laura María. 2016. “Extractivism in Latin America: Impact on Women’s Lives and Proposals for the Defense of Territory.” Bogota: Fondo de Acción Urgente.

Carvajal, Laura María et. al. 2015. “Women Defending the Territory: Experiences of Participation in Latin America.” Bogota: Urgent Action Fund.

Earthworks et. al. 2020. “Consultation at Risk: Advances in the Escobal Mine Consultation Overshadowed by Constitutional Crisis.”

Friends of the Earth International. 2021. “If it’s not feminist, it’s not just. Women’s voices, analysis and action towards a just energy transition.

Global Witness. 2021. “Last Line of Defence: The Industries Causing the Climate Crisis and Attacks Against Land and Environmental Defender.”  
Hegen, Tom. 2021. “Harmful Impacts of Mining.” Responsible Mining Foundation.

Hitchcock Auciello, Benjamin. 2021. “Recharge Responsibly: The Environmental and Social Footprint of Mining Cobalt, Lithium, and Nickel for Electric Vehicle Batteries.” Earthworks.  

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014. "Summary for Policymakers Fifth Assessment Report," Climate Change Synthesis Report." 

Justice and Corporate Accountability Project. 2016. “The ‘Canada Brand’: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America.” Osgoode Hall Law School.

KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives. 2015. “Gendered Impacts: Indigenous Women and Resource Extraction, KAIROS Symposium Executive Summary.” Toronto: Ontario.

Kamphuis, Charis and Charlotte Connolly. 2022. “The Two Faces of Canadian Diplomacy: Undermining International Institutions to Support Canadian Mining.” Justice & Corporate Accountability Project.

KnowTheChain and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. 2022. “Closing the Gap: Evidence for Effective Human Rights Due Diligence From Five Years Measuring Company Efforts to Address Forced Labour.

LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security et. al. 2021. “Defending the Future: Gender, Conflict and Environmental Peace.”

Marshall, Judith. 2018. “Tailings Dam Spills at Mount Polley and Mariana: Chronicles of Disasters Foretold.” Vancouver: CCPA.

Menard, Aubrey and Elizabeth Moses. 2021. “Gender and Extractive Governance: Lessons from Existing Legal and Policy Frameworks.” Natural Resource Governance Institute.

Mendoza, Úrsula. 2015. “Echoes of the Sounds of the Conch: Calling Out the Hearts of Women Activists, Defenders of Human Rights and Universal Goods in Latin America.” Bogota: Urgent Action Fund.

Mercy Corps, 2018. "Environment, Energy, and Climate Change: Technical Unit Sector Approach."

Milena Murcía, Diana and Laura María Carvajal. 2016. “Patterns of Criminalization and Limitations on the Effective Participation of Women Who Defend Environmental Rights, Territory, and Nature in the Americas – Update 2016.” Bogota: Fondo de Acción Urgente.

Moore, Jennifer and Gillian Colgrove. 2013. “Corruption, Murder and Canadian Mining in Mexico: The Case of Blackfire Exploration and the Canadian Embassy.” United Steelworkers, Common Frontiers, and MiningWatch Canada.

Murcia Riaño, Diana Milena et. al. 2018. “Impunity for Violence: Against Women Defenders of Territory, Common Goods, and Nature in Latin America. Executive Summary.” Bogota: Urgent Action Fund.

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, 2019. "Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls." 

Navas, Grettel, Giacomo D’Alisa and Joan Martínez-Alier. 2022. “The Role of Working-class Communities and the Slow Violence of Toxic Pollution in Environmental Health Conflicts: A Global Perspective.” Global Environmental Change 73.

Noble, Rachel, Rachel Walker, Lila Caballero and Asha Herten. 2020. “Another world is possible: Advancing feminist economic alternatives.” Action Aid.

Proceso de Comunidades Negras y MADRE. 2019. “No Choice But to Resist: Women Leaders of Black Communities Process.”

Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Sociales y Ambientales. 2018. “Report on the Risk Situation and Criminalization of Women Environmental Defenders in Latin America.”

Sanic, Teresa. 2014. “KAIROS Participatory Research with Partners on Free, Prior and Informed Consent: CEIBA’s experience in Guatemala.” Toronto: Canada.

The Gaia Foundation. 2020 "Mining: When is Enough, Enough?"

UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 2016. "Concluding observations on the combined eighth and ninth periodic reports of Canada." 

UN environment & International Resource Panel, 2019. "Global Resource Outlook: Natural Resources for the Future we Want." 

UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, 2011. "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights." 

UN Working Group on Mining and Human Rights in Latin America, 2014. "The impact of Canadian Mining in Latin America and Canada's Responsibility."

Vandegrift, Roo et. al. 2018. “The extent of recent mining concessions in Ecuador.” Rainforest Information Centre.

Walter, Mariana, Yannick Deniau, and Viviana Vargas. 2021. “Backgrounder: Mapping Community Resistance to the Impacts and Discourses of Mining for the Energy Transition in the Americas.” Environmental Justice Atlas y MiningWatch Canada.

Women’s Environmental Network, 2010. "Gender and the Climate Change Agenda: The impacts of climate change on women and public policy."  

WoMin; African Women Unite Against Destructive Resource Extraction, 2015. "The impact of extractive industries." 

Working Group on Mining and Human Rights in Latin America. 2014. “The impact of Canadian Mining in Latin America and Canada’s Responsibility Executive Summary of the Report submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.”

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