Reports and Analyses – Justice & Corporate Accountability Project

In Memoriam: Remembering 46 Indigenous Defenders Who Were Murdered in 2025 in Latin America

Latin America remains the most dangerous region for defending land rights, accounting for 82% of cases, according to a recent report by Global Witness. Cultural Survival tracks violence against Indigenous…

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

In 2004, Glamis Gold began construction of Guatemala’s first large-scale open-pit and underground gold mine. The mine was imposed without the consent of affected communities and has been associated with…

Knocking on a Locked Door: Assessing Canada’s Response to Attacks Against Human Rights Defenders

In this article we critically analyse the implementation of the Canadian government’s Voices at Risk guidelines (2016) from the perspective of two Canadian human rights advocacy Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)…

Briefing Note on International Advocacy Options

This brief reviews options for civil society to engage in international and non-judicial domestic advocacy to challenge the activities of Canadian corporations affecting human rights and the environment.

“The Situation Will Most Likely Turn Ugly”: Corporate Counter-Insurgency and Sexual Violence at a Canadian-Owned Mine in Guatemala

This paper offers a window into the terrain of corporate influence over violence in the mining industry. The research draws on over 300 pages of internal communications and other corporate…

Sexual violence and extraction: Interrogating mining executive discourses of corporate social responsibility, violence, and impunity

Gender-based and sexual violence permeates resource extraction. This violence operates in many forms and spheres, both public and private. Focusing on a case of overt, public violence, we ask, what…

The Two Faces of Canadian Diplomacy: A Case Study and a Legal Analysis (UBC Law Journal)

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…

How the International Investment Law Regime Undermines Access to Justice for Investment-Affected Stakeholders

For over a decade now, the international investment law regime, which includes investment treaties and their central pillar, the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, has been facing sustained calls for…

Bridging the Private-Public Divide in Investor-State Arbitration: Can Retrofitting Amicus Curiae Improve How Tribunals Consider Human Rights Issues?

Rightsholders who are consistently excluded from ISDS have increasingly filed third-party submissions to ISDS tribunals in the hopes that these submissions will force tribunals to consider their perspectives. This article…