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Honduran Civil Society Groups Reject Proposed Mining Law That Puts Corporate Interests Before Human Rights
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Communiqué: Twenty-one Honduran environmental, indigenous and human rights organizations have issued a joint statement demanding that the Honduran government create space for real and effective debate over a proposed new mining law. They also report that the congressional commission that wrote the law has been under pressure to get it passed.

Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Aura Minerals, Honduras, Breakwater Resources, Goldcorp
Co-author presents study "Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala: Economic Benefits and Environmental Risks of the Marlin Mine”.
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Dr. Lyuba Zarsky, a Senior Research Fellow for the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, is the co-author of a study on the Marlin Mine,  owned and operated by Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. in the western highlands of Guatemala. MiningWatch accompanied Dr. Zarsky during her visit to Ottawa in October 2011.

Hear about the ethical issues faced in determining an appropriate study methodology, the challenges involved in knowing what is true/not true, and why the study concludes that this mine operation should be suspended.

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Goldcorp
Video: Co-author presents study "Searching for Gold in the Highlands of Guatemala: Economic Benefits and Environmental Risks of the Marlin Mine”.
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Dr. Lyuba Zarsky, a Senior Research Fellow for the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, is the co-author of a study on the Marlin Mine,  owned and operated by Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. in the western highlands of Guatemala. MiningWatch accompanied Dr. Zarsky during her visit to Ottawa in October 2011.

Water, Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Goldcorp
Human Rights Commission's Climbdown a Wake-up Call for Human Rights Defenders in the Americas, Not Indicator of Goldcorp’s Performance
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Press Release: The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and MiningWatch Canada today expressed deep concern at the political pressure being brought to bear on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the western hemisphere’s primary organ for protecting human rights.  Under substantial pressure from governments, the IACHR decided in late December to modify an earlier order regarding the controversial Marlin mine in Guatemala, the subject of an ongoing human rights complaint

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Human Rights, Goldcorp
Impoverishment, not development, could be end result of Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in Guatemala, says new study
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Press Release: The legacy of Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in Guatemala “could well be ecological devastation and impoverishment” finds a new study from Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE). When the long-term environmental risks of the open-pit gold and silver mine are put in the balance with economic gains, the institute finds the benefits to be “meager and short-lived,” especially for local communities.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Economic Development, Impact on Communities, Goldcorp
Goldcorp Removed from Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Press Release: Effective September 19th, Goldcorp has been removed from the Dow Jones North America Sustainability Index. The announcement comes in the context of ongoing allegations of human rights violations and evidence of environmental contamination in communities affected by Goldcorp’s mining activities.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Honduras, Impact on Communities, Goldcorp
Gustavo Gómez: Contamination and Corruption
Monday, August 15, 2011

Argentine Federal Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez describes what he calls the cycle of corruption (círculo cerrado): companies are allowed to operate without adequate regard for the environment and subsequently use their enormous profits to ensure ever-increasing impunity. Mr. Gómez firmly believes that his office is best employed in prosecuting company directors as the intellectual authors of environmental crimes – feasible under Argentinean law, but difficult to do even under relatively progressive governments.

Argentina, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Goldcorp, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda), Yamana Gold
Gustavo Gómez: The Alumbrera Mine – A Case in Point
Monday, August 15, 2011

Argentine Federal Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez outlines five lines of investigation related to this mining operation, from environmental issues to concerns about the Argentinean State's lost revenues.

Argentina, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Goldcorp, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda), Yamana Gold
Gustavo Gómez: Corporate Donations to Universities
Monday, August 15, 2011

A number of Argentinean universities have refused to accept donations from mining companies and Argentine Federal Prosecutor Gustavo Gómez calls on Canadian institutions to carefully look at company practices when considering offers of this type of funding.

Argentina, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Goldcorp, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda), Yamana Gold
Gustavo Gómez on the Right to Protest
Monday, August 15, 2011

In Argentina, the movement to protect the environment has moved from the fringes and the university classroom, to communities concerned for their well-being, to the court room. Mr. Gómez discusses the challenges and his hopes for his country’s future. He also provides an interesting insight into the effectiveness of calling for justice from the judges hearing environmental cases, arguing that public attention helps counter-balance the behind-the-scenes influence often wielded by companies.

Argentina, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Goldcorp, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda), Yamana Gold

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