International Trade and Investment

Defending land and life against an impending train wreck: Canadian mining in Colombia
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Presentation: In the context of Colombia's ongoing internal armed struggle, President Santos has declared mining a new economic engine for Colombia, running up against the rights of indigenous, afro-Colombian, campesino, small scale and artisanal miners, and water users. Jen Moore gave this presentation at a teach-in organized in Toronto by the Colombia Action Solidarity Alliance (CASA) and the Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN) on December 4, 2011.

Corporate Accountability, Artisanal and Small-scale Mining, Colombia, Human Rights, International Trade and Investment, Gran Colombia Gold/Medoro Resources, Greystar Resources
Conservative Free Trade Agenda Low On Jobs, Environmental Protection
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

News Release: Free trade agreements with Panama and Jordan, legislation for which was announced today by International Trade Minister Ed Fast, will have little effect on jobs or the economy while putting Panamanian workers, Indigenous peoples and enviromental protections at risk, say the Council of Canadians and MiningWatch Canada.

Corporate Accountability, Environment, Panama, International Trade and Investment, Inmet, Petaquilla Minerals
Murder in El Salvador Calls Canadian Mining Interests Into Question
Monday, June 20, 2011

Joint news release with Council of Canadians and Common Frontiers: Yet another anti-mining activist has been murdered in El Salvador. Canadian civil society organizations are calling for a full investigation into the murder of Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, the fourth such death in two years that local organizations believe are linked to the presence of Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining in the department of Cabañas.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, El Salvador, Human Rights, International Trade and Investment, Pacific Rim
ACTION ALERT: Student Anti-Mining Activist Assassinated in El Salvador – Call on the Attorney General and the Minister of Security to Investigate!
Friday, June 17, 2011

Salvadoran Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, anti-mining activist and university student, has been murdered (background information below). Join the Environmental Committee of Cabañas (CAC) and Juan Francisco's family in calling on the Attorney General and National Civilian Police to carry out an exhaustive investigation into the material and intellectual authors of this brutal murder and to and protect the lives of all anti-mining activists in El Salvador.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, El Salvador, Human Rights, International Trade and Investment, Pacific Rim
Canadian Mining Policy in Practice
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Presentation: When examined in practice, Canada's foreign policy for the mining sector has a lot more to do with protecting our economic interests rather than human rights or the environment — some reflections based on Canadian mining interests in Latin America. Written for the Trent University Community Movements Conference 2011.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Peru, Human Rights, International Trade and Investment, Presentations, Dorato
Wikileaks: Weak governance and investor protections make CSR ineffective for overseas operations
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Presentation to Queen's University, International Development Week: Weak governance, investment protection agreements and strong political supports for Canadian companies operating in regions like Latin America make voluntary guidelines to ensure human rights protection a step in the wrong direction.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, El Salvador, Panama, Barrick Gold, Peru, Indigenous Rights, International Trade and Investment, Militarisation, Presentations, Dorato, Inmet, Pacific Rim
Urgent Action: Denounce recent wave of death threats and crimes against El Salvadoran anti-mining movement
Monday, January 31, 2011

Our allies in the Cabañas environmental movement as well as the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining (the Mesa) are very concerned about a recent wave of death threats and crimes against members of El Salvador’s anti-mining movement as well as other violent crimes recently committed in Cabañas.

Corporate Accountability, El Salvador, Human Rights, International Trade and Investment, Goldcorp, Pacific Rim
Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement
Monday, November 29, 2010

Canada moves to support mining investment in Panama in the face of mounting human rights abuse by the Panamanian government and concerted opposition from Indigenous peoples, affected communities, and environmental groups. "The agreement as negotiated presents a very real risk of entrenching an ineffective and possibly irresponsible regulatory regime by protecting investments from tougher environmental or fiscal measures."

Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Panama, International Trade and Investment, Corriente Resources, Inmet, Petaquilla Minerals
Blackfire adding threats to injury in Mexico: Canadian mining firm looks to pocket $800 million via NAFTA Ch. 11
Monday, February 22, 2010

Joint news release with Common Frontiers, United Steelworkers, Council of Canadians, and Sierra Club Canada: A coalition of Canadian organizations is condemning the threatened use of NAFTA by Blackfire Exploration to extract 800 million dollars from the impoverished Mexican state of Chiapas. The Calgary-based mining company is embroiled in accusations of corruption of Mexican public officials and the murder of a prominent environmental activist in the Mexican State of Chiapas.

Mexico, Blackfire, International Trade and Investment
Undermining the Forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case study
Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Undermining the Forests. The need to control transnational mining companies: a Canadian case studyThis study by Forest Peoples Programme, Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links and the World Rainforest Movement, published in January 2000, is the second report in a series which focuses on the social, environmental, economic and political impacts of transnational corporations (TNCs) on forests and forest peoples. The first one, titled High Stakes; The Need to Control Transnational Logging Companies: a Malaysian case study was published by the World Rainforest Movement and Forests Monitor in August 1998.

Corporate Accountability, Indonesia, Philippines, Guyana, Barrick Gold, Suriname, Indigenous Rights, International Trade and Investment, Cambior, Publications, Golden Star, IAMGOLD, Teck, TVI Pacific, Infinito Gold/Vanessa, Yamana Gold

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