Congo - Democratic Republic

Congolese Victims’ Pursuit of Justice Against Canadian Company Goes to Supreme Court
Monday, March 26, 2012

News release: The Canadian Association Against Impunity (CAAI) has today filed an application with the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of Congolese families. The families are seeking leave to appeal the Quebec Court of Appeal’s decision to dismiss a human rights case against the Canadian corporation Anvil Mining Limited.

Congo - Democratic Republic, Corporate Accountability, Anvil, Human Rights
La quête de justice de victimes congolaises à l’encontre d’une compagnie canadienne se rend en Cour suprême
Monday, March 26, 2012

Communiqué: L’Association canadienne contre l’impunité (ACCI) s’est adressée aujourd’hui à la Cour suprême du Canada au nom de familles congolaises. Les familles veulent faire renverser une décision de la Cour d’appel du Québec qui a refusé d’entendre une cause portant sur les violations des droits humains perpétrées par la compagnie canadienne Anvil Mining Limited.

Congo - Democratic Republic, Corporate Accountability, Anvil, Human Rights
Statement Regarding Quebec Court of Appeal Decision in Canadian Association Against Impunity v. Anvil Mining Limited
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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”.

Congo - Democratic Republic, Corporate Accountability, Anvil
Courting Justice: Victims of mining abuses sue in Canada
Monday, June 6, 2011

(Updated on February 11th, 2012)

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
Class Action Filed Against Anvil Mining by Congolese Victims
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

(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.

Congo - Democratic Republic, Corporate Accountability, Anvil, Corporate Social Responsibility, Newsletter 29: Autumn 2010
Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The struggle of the former Zaire towards democracy and away from extreme exploitation and impoverishment has been a difficult and violent process. Mining has been a lucrative business in the Congo since colonial times, but it has also been brutal and hugely destructive of the environment and peoples' health. While mining companies maintain they can bring jobs and prosperity, it is a difficult environment in which to work ethically.

Congo - Democratic Republic
Accueil favorable à la publication du rapport de revisitation des contrats miniers congolais
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Des organisations non gouvernementales congolaises et internationales saluent aujourd’hui la publication de l’examen des contrats miniers par le gouvernement de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) et demandent à ce dernier de veiller à ce que la renégociation des contrats se déroule ouvertement et de manière équitable.

Congo - Democratic Republic
Congo Mining Contract Review: Fast Track or False Trail? DRC Government needs to clarify review process to restore trust
Friday, November 28, 2008

The Congolese government’s ‘fast track solution’ to its mining contract review may turn out to be a false trail unless it addresses civil society concerns, warns a coalition of Congolese and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) today [1].

Congo - Democratic Republic, Economics & Taxation
NGOs fear that Congolese mining contract review process has been hijacked: Time for authorities in Europe and North America to act
Friday, November 28, 2008

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 Democrati

Congo - Democratic Republic, Economics & Taxation, Katanga
State of Mine: The Dominion Newspaper's Special Issue on Mining
Monday, November 17, 2008

The Dominion Newspaper is a cooperative, independent, grass roots publication. A special edition, State of Mine: An Investigation of Canada's Extractive Industries was published in November 2008 and is available online at: www.dominionpaper.ca/issue/55. The online edition features 37 articles on mining issues in Canada and internationally, including articles by MiningWatch Canada's Ramsey Hart and former National Coordinator Joan Kuyek.

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