Gendered Impacts of Extractivism: Modern Forms of
Slavery Featured Speakers: Simona Broomes, President of the Guyana Women Miners Organization Viviana Tacha-‐Gutierrez, Colombian Human Rights Lawyer Samantha Hargreaves, WoMin Regional Coordinator, International Alliance on Natural Resources in Africa (IANRA) Betty Obbo, National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), Uganda Sofia Vergara, Oxfam America, Advocacy Advisor on Extractives Industries Moderator: Rosa G. Lizarde, Global Director, Feminist Task Force Plenary Session: Interactive discussion about human trafficking, the gendered impacts of extractivism and the Post 2015 agenda
Coffee and tea will be served
Date: Wednesday, March
12th Hour: 8:30 – 10am
Venue: Church Center for the UN, 10th floor
777 United Nations Plaza (1st
ave and E. 44th st) New York, NY, 10017
Sponsors: The Mining Working Group at
the UN
Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd
Feminist Task Force
Franciscans International Oxfam America
Sisters of Mercy, Mercy International Association at
the UN
Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries
Photos | Top: Children awed by toxic and environmentally destructive gas flare, Niger Delta. Credit to Elaine Gilligan, FOEI and Peter Roderick, the Climate Justice Programme. With thanks to ERA, FOEI and the Climate Justice programme for the use of this photo | Bottom left: A demolished house near Ga Puka. Credit to ActionAid, Angloplat report, James Oatway/Panos/ActionAid | Bottom right: A survivor of conflict and one of its main weapons against women – rape, Kibati Refugee Camp, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit to ActionAid
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