Recent studies in the DRC tend to focus on human rights abuses or on the status of women, however few investigations examine the link between mining and sexual violence. There is a dearth of research specifically into the gender dimensions of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) as a means to...

Resources depletion refers to the situation where the consumption of natural resources is faster than it can be replenished. The natural resources of a nation can be divided as renewable resources and non renewable resources. The natural resources contribute at large to the economic development...

In what follows I draw from a variegated set of texts to explore and explain Canada's new concerted effort to protect and promote Canadian extractives abroad. I integrate Immanuel Wallerstein's concept of “protection networks” with Michael Klare's recent writing on resource scarcity and my...