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Complaint Asks Ontario Securities Commission to Investigate Tahoe Resources After Wiretap Evidence Implicates Employees in Violence at Guatemala Mine
Monday, June 3, 2013

News release: On Friday, the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) called on the Ontario Securities Commission to investigate Tahoe Resources for poor disclosure in the wake of wiretap evidence linking two of its security personnel to shootings at its only mine project in southeast Guatemala.

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Human Rights, Goldcorp, Tahoe Resources
Preliminary Report: Gold Mining and the Defence of Water in El Salvador
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Report: International delegation to El Salvador releases preliminary report of findings following visit to three emblematic sites in and on the border of Latin America's most densely populated country where civil society is carrying out a struggle to ban metallic mining.

Water, El Salvador, Guatemala, Goldcorp, Pacific Rim
Tahoe Resources Investor Alert Calls Guatemala Project a Dangerous Investment
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Investor Alert: Today, the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) and MiningWatch Canada warned Tahoe Resources investors against further investment in the Escobal silver project, given lack of community support and increasing violence and repression in the area.

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Human Rights, Goldcorp, Tahoe Resources
URGENT ACTION: Call for investigation and company departure in response to recurring violence in area of Canadian-owned silver project
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Urgent Action: Prevailing climate of violence in southern Guatemala warrants full investigation and, given lack of social licence, Canadian company's departure. 

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Goldcorp, Tahoe Resources
Guatemala’s Highest Court Denies Justice to Indigenous Peoples Affected by Mining
Friday, March 15, 2013

News release: A recent Guatemalan Constitutional Court decision regarding the 1997 Mining Law contradicts the country's international human rights obligations to respect Indigenous rights and is a step back from earlier jurisprudence. US, Canadian and Guatemalan organizations are asking how Canada's obligations to promote respect for Indigenous rights might also have been contravened.

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Indigenous Rights, Goldcorp
Sisters of the Siria Valley, We Support Your Struggle for Justice and Health
Friday, March 8, 2013

Development and Peace and MiningWatch Canada stand in solidarity with our sisters in struggle for justice and health from the communities of the Siria Valley, Honduras while they demonstrate in Tegucigalpa for International Women’s Day.

Corporate Accountability, Honduras, Health, Goldcorp
Resistance When Land and Life Are in Peril: Guatemalan Human Rights Defender Speaks in Canada
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Lolita Chávez says it is love of life that motivates her to risk her own as an outspoken Maya K'iche' activist against racism, mining, and hydroelectric project developments in the highlands of Guatemala.

Guatemala, Goldcorp, HudBay Minerals, Tahoe Resources
Canadian and US Organizations Call for Investigation into Recent Violence at Canadian Owned Mines in Guatemala
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Open Letter: Canadian and US civil society organizations are calling for the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) to open an investigation to determine who is responsible for recent violence surrounding Tahoe Resources' Escobal mine site in order that the case be brought to justice. They flag deep concern that the current investigation could be prejudiced and that public allegations against community members defending their right to live in a healthy environment could put them at risk of further violence or otherwise subject them to groundless legal actions.

Corporate Accountability, Guatemala, Human Rights, Goldcorp, Tahoe Resources
Guatemala’s ‘Goldcorp Law’
Monday, November 26, 2012

When Goldcorp flew four MPs and a Senator on a company jet to Guatemala at the end of August, it was lobbying both Canadian and Guatemalan legislators. MiningWatch broke the story to the Guatemalan press before the junket touched down in Guatemala City leading to strong national media coverage in the Central American country and later hitting national news in Canada once Goldcorp’s lobbyist reported the trip to the lobbyist registry in Ottawa.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Newsletter 33: Autumn 2012, Goldcorp
Corporations Fight Against Access to Domestic Courts for Harm Caused Overseas
Monday, November 26, 2012

People living in countries with weak governance and fragile legal systems have limited access to justice when faced with human rights and environmental abuses by multinational corporations. In 2008, the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) of the United Nations looking at the issue, John Ruggie, concluded that globalization creates opportunity for multinationals to harm people in other countries (host States) where access to justice is difficult:

Congo - Democratic Republic, Corporate Accountability, Anvil, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Human Rights, Labour, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper, Newsletter 33: Autumn 2012, Goldcorp, HudBay Minerals

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