Natural Resources Governance Institute

Women make up only 22 percent of the oil and gas workforce and 14 percent of the industrial mining workforce. This article explores the history of legal restrictions on women’s work and the implications of prohibitions.

Business Insider

Aubrey Menard gives an expert interview about the way Mongolia has handled the coronavirus and what it has meant for its economy.

Natural Resources Governance Institute

Because data is so seldom disaggregated by gender, it is difficult to truly assess the impacts of extractives policies and harmful practices are likely replicated.

New America

An adapted excerpt from Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East

New America

Congress should pursue cashmere imports with an eye towards sustainability.

New America

In the face of an existential threat to humanity, Trump has continued not only to remain inactive in the fight against climate change, but to aggressively roll back environmental protections and accelerate the doomsday clock.

The Washington Post

The Mongolian parliament’s fall legislative agenda includes debate of a proposed draft law on nonprofit legal entities. The draft law shares provisions used in recent laws to restrict civil society in Russia, Poland and Hungary.

South China Morning Post

Mongolian capital Ulan Bator set to demolish Soviet-era buildings – activists fight to save them and scent corruption

Al Jazeera

Police bring charges against far-right group after an attack on a transgender sex worker investigated as a hate crime.

New York Public Radio - The Brian Lehrer Show

Aubrey Menard, international election monitor, discusses her recent New York Times column comparing the United States to other countries regarding voting rights for felons.