Calls for fair compensation for women displaced by lithium mining in Zimbabwe

Calls for fair compensation for women displaced by lithium mining in Zimbabwe

The call follows a Gender Impact Assessment by the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organisation (ZELO), which found that women in mining-affected areas are often left without adequate compensation when they lose land used for subsistence farming. The report examined the social, economic and environmental effects of lithium mining on women working in both large-scale and artisanal mining operations. Researchers studied two major lithium projects in Ka…