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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”

December 10, 2022December 31, 2022

The Two Faces of Canadian Diplomacy: Undermining Human Rights and Environment Defenders to Support Canadian Mining

Globalized industrial resource extraction is unsustainable from an environmental and social perspective, and Indigenous peoples are often on the front…

March 19, 2022August 31, 2022

The Two Faces of Canadian Diplomacy: Undermining International Institutions to Support Canadian Mining

This report documents the Canadian government’s political support for Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in relation to proceedings initiated by Indigenous Peoples…

July 21, 2021August 31, 2022

Investors are increasingly shunning mining companies that violate human rights

Investors in Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources paid a price when Tahoe failed to disclose the extent of community and…

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Canadian Economic Diplomacy & Canada’s Systematic Failure to Fulfill its International Obligations to Human and Environmental Rights Defenders

20 Feb 2023March 15, 2023
We question whether Canadian embassies are acting ethically in their support for Canadian mining companies abroad. Four studies based on access to information disclosure show a troubling trend. See our…
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JCAP researcher Charlotte Connolly speaks at Mount Allison University

10 Oct 2022November 10, 2022
JCAP researcher Charlotte Connolly spoke at Mount Allison University on September 12, 2022 to discuss Canadian embassy support for silver mine associated with shooting and deaths of community members. “Our…
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Board Meeting May 2022

22 Sep 2022September 22, 2022
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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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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Where has JCAP worked?

25 Aug 2019September 22, 2022
Explore the map to see where we have worked. Click the pins markedto view project locations and  to view affiliated universities.
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Canadian Embassy Responsibility for Human Rights Defenders

27 Nov 2018October 10, 2022
We are writing on behalf of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), in response to your invitation to concerned groups to provide input to Global Affairs Canada on how…
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Investigation of Canadian embassy in Mexico

14 Mar 2018January 19, 2023
Blackfire Exploration, Mariano Abarca and the Canadian Embassy in Mexico: An Update (November 2022) In February 2018, the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner (PSIC) was asked to investigate the conduct of…
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Reference Materials for Researchers and Students on Mining, CSR and Corporate Accountability

19 Jul 2017October 10, 2022
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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If you have questions about JCAPs work or believe we may be of assistance please contact us at: info@justice-project.org

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