JCAP In the Media Archives - Justice & Corporate Accountability Project

Le << policier >> des entreprises canadiennes l’étranger, une << coquille vide >>?

Malgré un budget conséquent, le << policier >> des entreprises canadiennes a l'étranger n'à publié aucune enquête en cinq ans. Certains réclament pourtant justice. C'est le cas au Guatemala, ou…

Activists file securities complaints against Vancouver miners

Activists are calling on Canadian and U.S. securities commissions to investigate two Vancouver-registered mining companies for what they say is a failure to properly inform shareholders of conflicts concerning Guatemala?s…

Canada’s mining record criticized for human rights at UN

Canada's human rights record is being called into question ahead of a United Nations review of its diplomatic support for mining in Latin America. The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project…

Canada not walking the talk on its miners’ abuses abroad, campaigners say

Home to nearly half of the world's major mining companies, Canada has failed to fully implement promised reforms to hold corporations accountable for abuses committed overseas, according human rights advocates.…

Hollow Core

In 2018, Ottawa announced a new watchdog to probe alleged abuses by multinationals. It has yet to complete a single investigation. The Globe went to Peruvian oil country to see…

Clashes as Guatemalan communities fight mine

On the outskirts of San Rafael las Flores, the Escobal silver mine is an imposing complex of smoking chimneys, processing plants, huge heaps of earth and dozens of trucks, bustling…

Will Canadian companies be held responsible for their actions abroad?

Last week the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released a path-breaking decision, Choc v. Hudbay Minerals, that might, for the first time, require a Canadian mining company to take legal…

Courts likely to be next battleground for Canadian companies with foreign ops

Its not news that Canadian miner Nevsun Resources Ltd. may or may not have engaged in using forced labor - or, in less politically correct terms, slaves - in the…

Digging in Foreign Lands

Canada's mining industry accounts for nearly half of the world's mining and mineral-exploration activity. But who holds Canadian operations abroad accountable when workplace-safety violations occur, and what standards are they…