Uncategorized Archives - Justice & Corporate Accountability Project

Board Meeting May 2022

22 Sep 202222 Sep 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…

Amicus Curiae for Human Rights Defender in Peru

26 Aug 202231 Aug 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…

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

19 Mar 202231 Aug 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 202031 Aug 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…

Submission to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Responsibility of Canada for Actions of Canadians Companies in Latin America

16 Dec 201931 Aug 2022

The Special Rapporteur’s report of 2017 points out that transnational businesses have had a detrimental impact on the enjoyment of human rights and its Annual Report of 2018 highlighted the…

Canadian Embassy Responsibility for Human Rights Defenders

27 Nov 201831 Aug 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…