Winneway Aki - In response to the Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement (BAPE) press release dated October 21, 2024, Long Point First Nation (LPFN) wishes to affirm its unceded traditional territory and assert its Anicinabe rights and titles during the BAPE hearings concerning the Falco Horne 5 Mining Project. LPFN hosted the BAPE panel on October 3, 2024, at the Amo Ososwan School Gymnasium in Winneway, where LPFN members and leadership voiced strong concerns about the impacts of the project on Anicinabe lands and resources.

For over a decade, MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) have advocated for an effective and independent ombudsperson with the powers to compel documents and witness testimony, in an effort to hold Canadian companies accountable for abuse at their operations overseas. 

The following was translated into English by MiningWatch Canada and Common Frontiers. The original in Spanish is here.

Once again, we mobilize massively like rivers of life through the streets of Bucaramanga, demanding the full protection of the Santurbán páramo and forests, our main water source which is being threatened by the voracious appetite of transnational companies and their mining projects.

More than 100 Panamanian and international organizations and coalitions have submitted an open letter to Minister of International Commerce and Economic Development Mary Ng demanding the Canadian government withdraw all support for the Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals and respect the will of Panamanians who say “Panama is not a mi

MiningWatch Canada applauds the Mitchikanibikok Inik First Nation's major victory over the Quebec government in Quebec Superior Court!

Plaintiffs allege security strategy directly caused extensive human rights abuses

Joseph Morton, Mugglehead Magazine

A Canadian gold mining giant has been charged with human rights violations for its activities in Tanzania.

Colin McClelland, Mining.com 

Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is arguing in an Ontario court that allegations of human rights abuses in Tanzania should be decided in that country instead, with local police and a subsidiary of the Toronto-based major as defendants.

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Ottawa/Toronto – Today hearings commence in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto on behalf of 32 plaintiffs[1] from Tanzania against Barrick Gold Corporation (Barrick).[2] 

This year, MiningWatch gathered information on alleged violence against Kuria villagers in 2023 and 2024 carried out by police assigned to the mine. We received information on 28 cases and conducted interviews with alleged victims and family members of those who have been killed. The 28 cases include villagers who have been shot and killed, shot and survived, beaten to death, arrested and tortured, and maimed in a life-altering way through being hit by a teargas canister.