June 24, 2016 | News
©LISE REMON June 27th 2016 The artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector provides employment for an estimated 20 million people in the developing world, contributing to the livelihoods of over 100 million people, many of them living in Conflict and High...
June 15, 2016 | News
©ARM June 13th – 2016 After five very successful years as the Executive Director of ARM, Lina Villa will be moving on from her leadership role as of June 30th 2016 to dedicate herself to new professional projects. Having helped ARM to extend its...
June 9, 2016 | News
©Manuela Franco June 10th 2016 The Alliance for Responsible Mining and the Fundación Ayuda support the leading role of women in the development of artisanal and small-scale mining The Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) is pleased to announce a new project we are...
May 26, 2016 | News
©ARM May 27th 2016 After one year of Fairmined Certification the Mongolian NGO XAMODX successfully passes its recertification audit. Reaching Fairmined Certification is a challenge for artisanal and small-scale mining organizations, but maintaining it also requires...
April 19, 2016 | News
©ARM April 21st 2016 The Alliance for Responsible Mining announces today that Fairmined Ecological Gold from the Mongolian organization XAMODX and five mining organizations in la Llanada, Colombia is now available. Fairmined Ecological Gold is produced under the same...
April 5, 2016 | News
©Nigel Wright April 7th 2016 Forced labour takes many forms and is still common in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). This can even happen without people being aware of their own enslavement. Women, children, migrant workers and indigenous people are especially...
