JCAP In the Media – Page 2 – Justice & Corporate Accountability Project

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 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…

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…