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The Southern Africa Resource Watch was founded in 2007 and operated as a project within the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA). Its location and operations were primarily in SADC, well known as the world’s richest region in terms of extractive resources. While its establishment was related to the global natural resources boom of the 2000s, SARW outlived that specific economic boom as well as numerous extractive industry cycles over the years.
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Mapping of Mineworkers and the Portability of Social Benefits in the SADC Region

Toolkit for Effective and Sustained Community Participation, Grievance Redress Mechanism and Environmental Justice Financing in Mining Projects

The impact of Covid-19 on migrant mineworkers’ human and labour rights in South Africa
