Peru

CIDA Subsidizes Mining’s Social Responsibility Projects
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

News release: In defence of beleaguered Minister of International Cooperation, Bev Oda, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Parliament that the Canadian International Development Agency should give money only to “the poorest and the most vulnerable.” This is NOT what CIDA is doing.

Ghana, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Barrick Gold, Peru, Rio Tinto
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
Canadians ask federal government to halt ratification of Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement in light of Peruvian police massacre of Indigenous protesters
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Council of Canadians – Common Frontiers – MiningWatch Canada

For Immediate Release

Peru
Action Alert: Canada must halt free trade agreement with Peru after violent police crackdown of Indigenous protest
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Indigenous communities in Peru have been holding peaceful protests since April 9 to condemn new laws that would allow for the rapid industrialization of the Amazon rainforest. These laws were put in place by the Peruvian government to further facilitate its proposed free trade agreements with Canada and the United States.

Peru
Declarations of Oruro Gathering on Environmental Justice and Mining in Latin America
Monday, April 9, 2007

Oruro, Bolivia, March 9-11, 2007

This past March 9-11, representatives from civil society organizations and churches throughout Latin America met to share and discuss the situation of environmental injustice which communities and organizations are confronting as a result of the activities of transnational mining corporations.

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru
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
Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally: background documents
Thursday, October 20, 2005

On October 20, 2005, MiningWatch Canada held a round table on "Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally" with industry, government, and civil society representatives, including invited guests from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine options for regulatory and/or legislative change and debate the opportunities and difficulties of moving these options forward within the current Canadian political context.

Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, Africa, Ghana, Marcopper Mine, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Aur Resources, Barrick Gold, Peru, Golden Star, Placer Dome, Teck, TVI Pacific
Canadian Mining Companies Investments in Peru: The Tambogrande Case and the Need to Implement Reforms
Saturday, April 30, 2005

"In the case of Tambogrande, for the first time there was a very clear and direct confrontation between agricultural and mining development." Case study by CooperAcción.

Corporate Social Responsibility, Peru
Major Gold Project Implodes in Peru: Community Succeeds in Opposing Controversial Gold Mine
Friday, December 12, 2003

MININGWATCH CANADA ~ OXFAM AMERICA ~ MINERAL POLICY CENTER

Tambogrande, PERU – Community members, joined by human rights and environmental advocates, today hailed a major precedent in their push for recognition of community rights in places where multinational corporations seek to operate.

Corporate Social Responsibility, Peru

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