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About JCAP

The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) is a volunteer-driven transnational, collaborative, community-based legal clinic. JCAP assists in holding corporations and states to account by offering legal knowledge to communities that are negatively affected by natural resource extraction. JCAP has cultivated specific expertise in supporting Indigenous and Campesino communities in the Americas and has also supported communities in Africa.

The “Canada Brand”: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America

The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project has documented troubling incidents of violence associated with Canadian mining companies in Latin America. In general, neither the Canadian government nor industry are monitoring or reporting on these incidents. Click here to view the complete report Click here for a summary of the report…Continue reading “The “Canada Brand”: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America”

August 12, 2025August 27, 2025

Request to Investigate Dundee Precious Metals for Failure to Disclose Material Information

Submission to the Ontario Securities CommissionAugust 12, 2025 Submitted by Shin Imai on behalf of communities and organizations listed in…

December 15, 2024August 27, 2025

Social Conflict and Indigenous Consent in Mining: A primer on CSR, ESG and social disclosures to investors

Written by Shin Imai, Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School Abstract: The transnational corporate structure of mining companies makes it…

April 4, 2023August 15, 2025

Canada’s Systematic Failure to Fulfill its International Obligations to Human and Environmental Rights Defenders Abroad

Canada’s Systematic Failure to Fulfill its International Obligations to Human and Environmental Rights Defenders Abroad Submission to the UPR Working…

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JCAP submission to Global Affairs Canada on Africa

10 Jan 2025January 10, 2025
JCAP urges the Government to adopt a rights-based approach that aims to reverse the harmful legacy of Canadian extractive companies operating in the region. This approach is critical to ensuring…
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Submissions to the Review of the Canadian Ombudsperson on Responsible Enterprise (CORE)

29 Oct 2024January 3, 2025
JCAP welcomes the Government of Canada's review of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise. The CORE serves a critical purpose in promoting corporate accountability and responsible business conduct of Canadian…
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Osgoode Project Keeps an Eye on Canadian Mining Companies Abroad

28 Nov 2023January 23, 2024
Canadian Lawyer Magazine interviews Osgoode professor emeritus Shin Imai and law student Lisa Rankin about the founding of the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) and ongoing efforts to hold…
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Reference Materials for Researchers and Students on Mining, CSR and Corporate Accountability

19 Jul 2023December 11, 2023
The resources here are selections of reports used by JCAP in its research. We hope it will be useful to students and researchers. We have focused on reports that are…
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The Two Faces of Canadian Diplomacy: Undermining Human Rights and Environment Defenders to Support Canadian Mining

10 Dec 2022April 19, 2023
Globalized industrial resource extraction is unsustainable from an environmental and social perspective, and Indigenous peoples are often on the front lines of alerting humanity to the resulting harms. Community members…
Publications

JCAP Annual Activity Report

22 May 2021August 26, 2022
Review the JCAP Annual Activity Report here
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The Transnational Mining Justice Movement

14 Aug 2020August 31, 2022
The legal instruments associated with economic globalization, including foreign investment agreements, global markets and trade agreements, have significantly facilitated foreign resource extraction and imbued it with particular geographic patterns. The…
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Petition Against Canada for Violations of the Right to Life and Other Rights of Mariano Abarca

7 Jun 2023August 15, 2025
Did Canada Fail to Protect a Human Rights Defender Assassinated for His Opposition to a Canadian Mine in Mexico? A new complaint to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights makes…
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Board Meeting May 2022

22 Sep 2022January 3, 2025
In May of 2022, JCAP board members convened a group of lawyers, law students, law professors, and NGO’s at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto. The attendees have worked with JCAP…
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Investors are increasingly shunning mining companies that violate human rights

21 Jul 2021June 7, 2023
Investors in Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources paid a price when Tahoe failed to disclose the extent of community and Indigenous opposition to its Escobal mine in Guatemala a few…

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