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”
Justice & Corporate Accountability Project
Communities First! Providing legal resources to communities in mining conflicts.
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.
Canada’s Systematic Failure to Fulfill its International Obligations to Human and Environmental Rights Defenders Abroad
Canada’s Systematic Failure to Fulfill its International Obligations to Human and Environmental Rights Defenders Abroad Submission to the UPR Working…
Social Disclosure and Share Value: Empirical Data on (Non-) Disclosure of Information Related to Violence and Lack of Indigenous Consent
Social Disclosure and Share Value: Empirical Data on (Non-) Disclosure of Information Related to Violence and Lack of Indigenous Consent…
Investors are increasingly shunning mining companies that violate human rights
Investors in Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources paid a price when Tahoe failed to disclose the extent of community and…