Water and mining: what does leadership involve?

Water and mining: what does leadership involve?

  Water has gained increased importance in communities’ and NGO’s agendas, becoming the most powerful convening issue for territorial based social movements resisting mining.  Water is the most sensitive issue for communities as negative impacts on water directly...

An intercultural approach on ASM formalization

Mining is part of the culture and way of life of many Afro-Colombian communities. Chapter V of Law 70/1993[1]of the National Constitution establishes that the Community Councils, as administrative bodies of the collective Afro-Colombian territories, have stewardship...