Charis Kamphuis, Author at Justice & Corporate Accountability Project

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…

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

10 Dec 2022December 31, 2022

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…

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…

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…

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

19 Mar 2022August 31, 2022

This report documents the Canadian government’s political support for Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in relation to proceedings initiated by Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala before an international human rights body. It documents…

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…

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…