Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Accountability in Canada - A MiningWatch Archive
Friday, March 25, 2011

An archive of key moments in advocating for corporate accountability in Canada between 2005 and 2010. Included: key documents and responses from MiningWatch released between 2005 and 2010, presentations made before parliamentary committees with regards to SCFAIT's Mining in Developing Countries report and Bill C-300, letters of support and position statements from civil society and the Mining industry, and analysis pieces.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility
Suppressed Report Confirms International Violations by Canadian Mining Companies
Monday, October 18, 2010

News release: A report obtained by MiningWatch Canada reveals that Canadian mining companies are implicated in four times as many violations of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as mining companies from other countries. The report was commissioned by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) in 2009 but was never released to the public.

Bill C-300, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility
Mining Investors: Understanding the legal structure of a mining company and identifying its management, shareholders and relationship with the financial markets
Thursday, November 1, 2007

Mining InvestorsCommunities dealing with the impact from mining activities (whether at the claim-staking, exploration, development, operating, closure, or restoration/rehabilitation stage) find themselves confronted by a legal entity they may not understand, making demands that are contrary to the desires of the community, and giving reason for its behaviour that they do not know how to counteract.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics & Taxation, Educational Materials, Publications
Groundbreaking Report on Mining, Oil and Gas Companies Released: Civil Society and Industry Representatives Agree on Good Overseas Practices
Thursday, March 29, 2007

(Ottawa) Canada could become a world leader on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) if the federal government and other stakeholders accept and act on the recommendations of a groundbreaking report released today. The report comes out of a ten month government-led roundtable process that included representatives from civil society organizations, industry, academia, labour, and socially responsible investors acting as an Advisory Group, as well as representatives from communities affected by Canadian mining, oil and gas operations in the developing world.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility
Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

On January 8th and 9th, 2007, hundreds of police and soldiers in Guatemala forcibly evicted the inhabitants of several communities who were living on lands that a Guatemalan military government had granted to Canadian mining company INCO in 1965. Local indigenous people claim the land to be theirs, and resent the exploitation of a foreign corporation. Canada's Skye Resources now lays claim to the land, and paid workers a nominal sum to destroy people's homes.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Guatemala, Indigenous Rights, Militarisation, HudBay Minerals, Skye, Vale (incl. Inco)
CIDA Subsidizes the Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Mining Companies
Friday, February 3, 2012

In late 2011 the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development started to study the “Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Canada’s International Development Interests.” This is our submission to the Standing Committee.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility
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
Ghana's Golden Deception
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The streets are hardly paved with gold. Despite producing gold on an industrial scale since 1873 – over nine million ounces’ worth – the place is really not much better off than the rest of the country. Scattered chunks of tarmac are the only evidence that the main road from Tarkwa to Prestea had once been paved.

Ghana, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Newsletter 31: Autumn 2011, Golden Star, Kinross
Whose development? Mining, local resistance and development agendas
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

This is a synopsis of a paper by Catherine Coumans published in: Governance Ecosystems CSR in the Latin American Mining Sector, edited by Julia Sagebien and Nicole Marie Lindsay, in the International Political Economy Series published by Palgrave Macmillan, November 2011.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Development, Human Rights, Impact on Communities, Newsletter 31: Autumn 2011
Philippine Province Bans Open Pit Mining – Affects TVI Pacific’s Operations
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

News release: The government of Zamboanga del Norte in the Philippines has issued an ordinance prohibiting new open pit mines in the province.

Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philippines, Human Rights, TVI Pacific

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