Commentary: Women miners aren't always victims.In spite of its dangers, "the victimization lens does great injustice to the hundreds of women mining alongside men," writes Leif Brottem. For women in impoverished countries like Mali, small-scale artisanal mining offers women their best bet for financial freedom and opportunity. "What women in Africa really need is for governments and their donors to recognize why so many of them take up mining and design their development strategies accordingly."
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Eleven countries are expected to sign a landmark Asia-Pacific trade agreement in Santiago, as an antidote to the increasingly protectionist bent of the United States, which last year pulled out of the pact.
The five banks that settle every transaction in London’s $6.8 trillion a year gold market are changing the rules of their clearing house to make it easier for newcomers to join.
Apple said it had found a higher number of serious violations of its labor and environmental policies for suppliers, such as falsifying work hours data, as it expanded the scope of its annual audit of conditions of workers making its iPhones and other products.
