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About JCAP

The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) is a volunteer-driven transnational, collaborative, community-based legal clinic. JCAP assists in holding corporations and states to account by offering legal knowledge to communities that are negatively affected by natural resource extraction. JCAP has cultivated specific expertise in supporting Indigenous and Campesino communities in the Americas and has also supported communities in Africa.

The “Canada Brand”: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America

The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project has documented troubling incidents of violence associated with Canadian mining companies in Latin America. In general, neither the Canadian government nor industry are monitoring or reporting on these incidents. Click here to view the complete report Click here for a summary of the report…Continue reading “The “Canada Brand”: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America”

What is Petrotal Saying? Problematic Company Statements for Affected Communities

17 Feb 202212 Aug 2022
What is Petrotal Saying? Problematic Company Statements for Affected Communities By Charis Kamphuis and Robin Kelly Canadian oil company, PetroTal S.A., owns and operates one of the most productive oil…
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Undermining International Institutions to Support Canadian Mining

3 Feb 202212 Aug 2022
The Two Faces of Canadian Diplomacy: Undermining International Institutions to Support Canadian Mining (2022) By Charis Kamphuis and Charlotte Connolly This report documents the Canadian government’s political support for Goldcorp’s…
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Amicus Curiae Kukama Women’s Fed. v PETROPERU

4 Oct 20213 Feb 2022
JCAP and the University of Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria have presented an amicus curiae brief to the court in Kukama Women’s Federation v PETROPERU, Ministry of…
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Investors are increasingly shunning mining companies that violate human rights

21 Jul 202112 Aug 2022
Investors are increasingly shunning mining companies that violate human rights By Shin Imai and Sarah Colgrove Investors in Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources paid a price when Tahoe failed to…
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JCAP Annual Activity Report (May 2021)

3 May 20216 May 2021
Review the JCAP Annual Activity Report here
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Submission to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

16 Dec 201912 Aug 2022
Submission to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Responsibility of Canada for Actions of Canadians Companies in Latin America (2019) By Shin Imai, Isabel Dávila Pereira, Juanita Valencia and Sarah Chiavarini.…
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CDN Embassy Responsibility for Human Rights Defenders (Nov. 2018)

27 Nov 201821 Jul 2021
JCAP submissions on “Voices at Risk” policy for human rights defenders stresses need to monitor implementation Click here for letter
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Investigation of Canadian embassy in Mexico (Updated – April 2021)

14 Mar 20186 May 2021
Blackfire Exploration, Mariano Abarca and the Canadian Embassy in Mexico: An Update (April 2021) Update: https://justice-project.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Blackfire-case-update-April-2021.docx JCAP represents family of murdered community leader in Mexico. Requests investigation of Canadian Embassy…
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