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Courting Justice: Victims of mining abuses sue in Canada
Monday, June 6, 2011

Over the past couple of years, Private Member’s Bill C-300 had MiningWatch focused on efforts to bring about legislative change through the Canadian parliament in order to hold our extractive industry to greater account for its operations abroad. But while our attention has been on Parliament Hill, Canadian courts have become another important front in the battle against corporate impunity.

Congo - Democratic Republic, Corporate Accountability, Anvil, Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Guyana, Human Rights, Cambior, Newsletter 30: Spring 2011, Goldcorp, HudBay Minerals
Halifax Initiative Publishes Canadian Mining Map
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Canadian mining map was produced by the Halifax Initiative during the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries. The Roundtables, which took place between June and November of 2006, fulfilled one of the recommendations made in the groundbreaking report, Mining in Developing Countries and Corporate Social Responsibility, tabled by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT) in June 2005.

Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, Congo - Democratic Republic, Goro and Prony, INCO in Sulawesi, Kashipur Bauxite Project, Udon Thani - Asia Pacific Resources, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burma, Marcopper Mine, Sulawesi, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Kyrgyz Republic, Colombia, Indonesia, Nevada, Romania, Tanzania, Anvil, New Caledonia, Spain, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philippines, Guatemala, Thailand, Guyana, Mexico, Barrick Gold, Peru, Suriname, Cambior, Cameco, Dundee Precious Metals, Gabriel Resources, Glamis Gold, Goldcorp, Golden Star, IAMGOLD, Ivanhoe, Metallica Resources, New Gold, Orvana, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto Alcan, TVI Pacific
On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining
Friday, September 1, 2000

On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale MiningReport from the Workshop held in Ottawa, April 14-16, 2000.

Canada, INCO in Sulawesi, Water, Africa, Ghana, Lead, Sulawesi, Arsenic, Corporate Accountability, Anaconda, Colombia, Nevada, Asbestos, New Mexico, Northwest Territories, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Papua New Guinea, Cyanide, Ontario, Philippines, Environmental Planning, Economic Development, Guyana, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Mexico, Barrick Gold, Peru, Battle Mountain, Gold, Suriname, Impact on Communities, Cambior, Cameco, Militarisation, Publications, Uranium, Water and fisheries, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Goldcorp, Golden Star, Newmont, Noranda/Falconbridge, Placer Dome, Teck, Infinito Gold/Vanessa, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
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
Review of the Export Development Act - Presentation to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Tuesday, November 16, 1999

The Export Development Corporation has been brought forcefully to our attention by communities and non-governmental organizations that have to deal with the impact of Canadian mining development abroad. They want to know what role Canadian institutions play in perpetuating the problems they face, and what — if anything — Canadian citizens are doing to support them.

INCO in Sulawesi, Marcopper Mine, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Sulawesi, Kenya, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Kyrgyz Republic, Papua New Guinea, Environmental Planning, Guyana, Environmental Assessment, Export Development Canada, Barrick Gold, Peru, BHP-Billiton, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Cambior, Cameco, Presentations, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Inmet, Noranda/Falconbridge, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto, Teck, Tiomin, TVI Pacific, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
Planning for International “Real Costs of Mining” Conference
Wednesday, October 27, 1999

Next spring, MiningWatch Canada will bring together 30 leaders from communities affected by Canadian mining companies around the world to share their stories and develop a framework for research projects located in their experience of mining in all its stages. A video and booklet will also come out of the meeting.

Newsletter 01: Autumn 1999, Ghana, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Indonesia, Nevada, Philippines, Economic Development, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, Impact on Communities

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