The Guide for Child Labor-free Mining
In Colombia, 796,000 children and adolescents work and many of them work in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). On June 12th, 2018 was the World Day Against Child Labour which the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) wants to commemorate by presenting the “Guide...
CRAFT Code, the “Passport to Markets” for artisanal and small-scale miners, completes global public consultation and moves to publish final version
Approximately 400 people participated in the global public consultation of CRAFT (Code of Risk-mitigation for Artisanal and small-scale mining engaging in Formal Trade). Designed to reflect and align with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance Annex II, as well as...
ARM participating in the Global Sustainability Standards Conference in São Paulo
The conference organized by the Iseal Alliance took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from May 22 to 24. Iseal is a membership organization conformed of different sustainability initiatives that work on strengthening sustainablity standards for the benefit of populations...
A New project to strengthen local social dialogue and control over the mining sector
A new project has begun in the extractive industries sector in Colombia that seeks to strengthen the capacities of citizens with regard to transparency, access to information and social control of the sector in different territories of the country where it is...