Economic Diplomacy 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…

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.…

Feds won’t change Harper-era mining ethics office

The Trudeau government won't be making changes to the role of a controversial corporate social responsibility counsellor for the mining sector, according to a government spokesperson. The Office of the…

A Clearing in Canada: Ottawas New Standards for Sustainability

For Vancouver-based Nevsun Resources Ltd., the timing could hardly have been worse: Just as Canada issued its latest corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards for extractive companies in November, the Eritrea-focused…

Cracks in the policy: Human Rights commission probes Canada on mining

On October 28, 2014, I appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC with a member of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, as group of 29…

Canada Accused of Failing to Prevent Overseas Mining Abuses

The Canadian government is failing either to investigate or to hold the country's massive extractives sector accountable for rights abuses committed in Latin American countries, according to petitioners who testified…

Impact of Canadian Mining Activities on Human Rights In Latin America (video)

The petitioners alleged that the Canadian State plays a central role in enabling the adverse human rights impacts of Canadian mining companies abroad through acts of commission and omission, such…

Independent accountability needed for Canadian mining companies abroad

Over 20,000 people from the mining industry gathered in Toronto for the annual conference of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada last week. This is known as one of…