Articles

• The Colombian Ministry of the Environment should ensure that there will be no large-scale mining in the páramo of Santurbán

  22 décembre 2014, par Jen
  Source: Committee for the Defence of Water and the Páramo of Santurbán - Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) - Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) - MiningWatch Canada (Bogotá, Colombia) The Colombian (...)

• Canada’s CSR Strategy for Extractives 2.0 – Government Acknowledges Power to Act, Declines to Do So

  14 novembre 2014, par Jamie
  (Ottawa) Today the Government of Canada released its revised Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy for extractive companies operating overseas, finally recognising its power to withdraw the substantial support that it provides such companies in order to make them accountable, but (...)

• Peruvian Community Denounces HudBay Minerals for Human Rights Violations over Constancia Project

  11 novembre 2014, par Jen
  Source: Cooperacción - Traditional Ayllu of Uchuccarco, district of Chamaca, Chumbivilcas, Cusco, Peru Press Release: Community Members, Denouncing Noncompliance on the part of HudBay Minerals, advance toward Constancia Mine During the morning hours of November 10, local residents from (...)

• Canada Refuses to Take Action Against Abuses by Mining Project in Ecuador

  15 octobre 2014, par Jen
  Source: International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) - Ecuadorian Ecumenical Human Rights Commission (CEDHU) - MiningWatch Canada (Paris/Quito/Ottawa) FIDH, its Ecuadorian member organisation, CEDHU, and MiningWatch Canada deplore the lack of will and failure to take action on the part of (...)

• Human Rights Organizations Urge Canada to Take Action Against Corporate Abuses in Ecuador

  27 juin 2014, par Jen
  Source: FIDH - Ecumenical Human Rights Commission of Ecuador (CEDHU) - MiningWatch Canada Forced displacement and other abuses by Corriente Resources mining company in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Paris/Quito/Ottawa) Eleven months after submitting a complaint to the Canadian National Contact Point (...)

• Lawsuit Against Tahoe Resources a Wake Up Call for Investors and Canadians

  18 juin 2014, par Jen
  Source: Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) - Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network - MiningWatch Canada (Ottawa/Tatamagouche/Guatemala City) A civil lawsuit filed today in Vancouver against Tahoe Resources for negligence and battery in connection with a (...)

• Barrick Financial Woes Related to Human Rights and Environmental Abuses Raised by Protestors at Yearly AGMs – Shareholders Should Pay Attention !

  30 avril 2014, par Jamie
  (Toronto) As Barrick Gold struggles with deepening financial and management crises, it is time to squarely recognize the relationship between the decline of the corporation and the environmental and human rights abuses at Barrick projects around the world – which are protested against yearly (...)

• Five Major Mining Challenges for Quebec's New Government to Address

  11 avril 2014, par Ramsey
  Source: Coalition Québec meilleure mine Quebec, Friday, April 11, 2014. With the election of the new government of Quebec, the Coalition Quebec meilleure mine (Better Mining Coalition) invites Premier Phillippe Couillard and all the elected members of the National Assembly to pursue an agenda (...)