Anvil

Our concern centres on the apparent denial of the possibility that the victims of the violence in Kilwa could seek redress from a Canadian company in Canadian courts, with the ancillary concern that transnational corporations, mining companies in particular, and Anvil Mining in specific, may be able to use Canada as a corporate domicile “flag of convenience”.

(Adapted from the joint news release.) An association representing Congolese citizens filed a class action against Anvil Mining Limited in a Montreal court on November 8, 2010. The group alleges that by providing logistical assistance the company was involved in human rights abuses, including the massacre by the Congolese military of more than 70 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in October, 2004.

News release from:

• Broederlijk Delen
• CEPAS
• Entraide Missionaire
• Fatal Transactions
• Forum de la Société Civile Congolaise
• Global Witness
• MiningWatch Canada
• Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA)
• Rights and Accountability in Development
• 11.11.11
• Urgewald

At the start of the Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town, an international coalition of non-governmental organizations warns that the Democrat

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.