Human rights group seeks to hold BC-based company liable for shootings at Guatemalan mine. By Sebastian Salamanca, Today, TheTyee.ca Two Guatemalans … More
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Glencore’s Ruthless Cost-cutting Harms Communities in the Congo, Say NGOs
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Source: Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) – Bread for All – Fastenopfer (Oxford and Lausanne) … More
Canadian mining companies under fire for Latin America operations
By Nick Logan Global News Indigenous peasants living around Canadian mining company GoldCorp, march July 28, 2010 in Guatemala City … More
Indigenous People in Chile Are Worried About Canadian Mining Sparking a Genocide
By Tim McSorely June 14, 2014 | 6:02 pm This article originally appeared on VICE Canada. “Not all that glitters … More
Mining companies ‘worst offenders’ for misinvoicing, secrecy: reports
By Will Fitzgibbon June 6, 2014, 9:00 am Gold mining in Tanzania. Photo: africa924 / Shutterstock.comMining a rich lode of … More
Villagers’ Houses Burnt Down Again at Barrick Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 Repeat of 2009’s Gross Human Rights Violations Follow Failed Resettlement Negotiations (Ottawa) In a pre-dawn raid … More
International opinion tribunal condemns Canadian mining companies: Witnesses testify to systematic human rights violations in Latin America
Written by Igor Sadikov | Visual by Tamim Sujat | The McGill Daily News | June 6th, 2014 The first … More
Mining and Colonialism in Brazil’s Giant Carajás Project
Escrito por Raúl Zibechi | 31 / May / 2014 Started during the military dictatorship, the Carajás Project has, in … More
Clashes as Guatemalan communities fight mine
By Nina Lakhani San Rafael las Flores, Guatemala The Escobal silver mine is located in Guatemala’s agricultural heartland On the … More
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal: Session on the Canadian Mining Industry in Latin America
May 30 – Jun 1, 2014, Montreal, Québec Preliminary Verdict (Excerpt) This document is part of the preliminary verdict that … More