gold mining

Residents of Maraldy village in the East Kazakhstan region continue to protest the ‘VSAM Production’ company, which is mining gold in the area. People fear harmful consequences for the environment. VSAM Production, in turn, claims that they crossed the path of artisanal ‘shadow’ miners. (more…)

IWPR Central Asia and CABAR.asia present a policy brief themed “From Resource Extraction to Local Dissent: Understanding Environmental Protests in the Gold Mining Sector of Kyrgyzstan”. The brief was developed by Abdyrakhman Sulaimanov for the IWPR Representative Office in Central Asia and the regional analytical platform CABAR.asia.

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