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Catherine Coumans
Ph.D. Research Coordinator and Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator
Blog Entries
NGOs Express Concern over Canada’s Engagement at the International Seabed Authority
29.05.2024
Baru Gold faces Legal Defeat, Permit Revocation, and Rejection by the Youth of Sangihe Island in Indonesia
22.09.2023
Letter to Minister Joly: Canada Must Join the Call for a Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining
09.06.2023
Communities Call for Respect, Barrick Responds with Aggression
11.05.2023
The Metals Company Loses Second Major Investor as Maersk Divests
09.05.2023
Conflict, Environmental Harm and Human Rights Abuse Allegations – What Barrick Shareholders Need to Know
02.05.2023
Gold miner faces global protests as it rekindles a mine with a violent legacy
01.05.2023
Sangihe Islanders Win Another Important Legal Victory Against Canada’s Baru Gold’s Plans to Mine on the Small Island
21.03.2023
Letter to Barrick Gold: Ongoing Concerns About Forced Evictions
27.02.2023
Canada’s Mining Dominance and Failure to Protect Environmental and Human Rights Abroad
23.02.2023
Catherine Coumans Testifies Before Standing Committee on International Trade
06.02.2023
ADVISORY: Public Demonstration Calling for a Global Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining
02.02.2023
Letter to Barrick Gold: Forced Evictions and Related Human Rights Abuses Ongoing at North Mara Gold Mine
27.01.2023
Urgent Letter to Barrick Gold: Halt Forced Evictions at the North Mara Gold Mine
18.10.2022
Barrick Gold Corp.’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine: A Legacy of Ignoring Human and Environmental Rights Abuses
27.06.2022
Proposed Revisions to the National Contact Point Again Fall Short of Necessary Reforms
20.05.2022
Barrick’s Rhetoric Belies the Lived Reality of Communities at its Mines Around the World
03.05.2022
Court Rules Ottawa Can Maintain Secrecy on Aid to Goldcorp in Human Rights Dispute
02.03.2022
Canadians ask Federal Government to Support Moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining
20.01.2022
Global Support for a Moratorium or Ban on Deep Seabed Mining
20.01.2022
Canada’s Role in Deep Seabed Mining
20.01.2022
Comments on Nauru Ocean Resources Incorporated's Collector Test Environmental Impact Statement
08.12.2021
MiningWatch Supports Complaint Filed with OECD Against Canada’s National Contact Point for OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
07.10.2021
Petition Launched in Canada for International Moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining
22.06.2021
Canada’s Role in Deep Seabed Mining
22.06.2021
Shareholder Advisory: The Proposed Business Combination Between Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition and DeepGreen
25.05.2021
Shareholder Advisory Alerts Investors on DeepGreen-SOAC Merger
25.05.2021
Barrick Gold Mines Focus of Conflict Globally
04.05.2021
Barrick Gold lost its 'social licence' in Papua New Guinea. This is the price it's paying to earn it back
15.04.2021
Barrick Forces Hand of Papua New Guinea Government in Reopening Porgera Mine
06.04.2021
Greenwash + Blank Cheque Company ≠ Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance
05.03.2021
Petition vs human rights abuses in PH tabled in Canadian Parliament
26.02.2021
Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines
25.02.2021
Canadian Organizations Call on Canada to Halt Mining of the Seabed
03.02.2021
OceanaGold Still Unwanted in the Philippines
04.01.2021
“It Did Not Go Well” – Barrick Continues Pressure on Papua New Guinea Government While Ignoring Human Rights
04.12.2020
Canada’s National Contact Point: Long Overdue for an Overhaul
07.10.2020
Canada’s National Contact Point is Long Overdue for an Overhaul
07.10.2020
Parliamentary Petition Addresses Human Rights Crisis in the Philippines, Mining, and Canada's Role
22.09.2020
Submission on United Nations Environment Assembly Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance
16.09.2020
Papua New Guinea Landowners' Fears Confirmed: Bismarck Sea At Risk; Canadian Conic Metals Unresponsive
17.06.2020
Papua New Guinea Seeks to Amend 1992 Mining Act – Implications for Renewal of Porgera Mine Lease
12.06.2020
Civil Society of Tonga Speaks Out Against Plans to Mine the Deep Sea
08.06.2020
Mining The Deep Sea Could Mean Unique Ecosystems Are 'Lost Forever'
21.05.2020
Barrick Gold AGM 2020 – CEO Mark Bristow Responds to Questions about North Mara Mine in Tanzania
05.05.2020
Barrick Gold AGM 2020 – CEO Mark Bristow Responds to Questions about Porgera Mine
05.05.2020
Barrick Gold AGM Faces Continued Failure on Human Rights
05.05.2020
Still No Justice for Marinduque’s Mining Victims
24.03.2020
Tanzanian Victims Commence Legal Action Against Barrick Gold in UK
10.02.2020
Comments on FinDev Canada’s Draft Environmental & Social Policy
07.01.2020
Critique of the Government of Canada’s 2014 “Enhanced Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy: To Strengthen Canada’s Extractive Sector Abroad”
12.12.2019
Mining the Deep Sea: Stories for Suckers, and Corporate Capture of the UN
30.10.2019
Trudeau Government Drops Writ and Publishes Revised Ombudsperson Mandate, Again Fails to Provide Necessary Powers to Investigate Corporate Abuse of Human Rights
12.09.2019
Protests in Ottawa and Vancouver Part of Global Day of Action Against Oceanagold
09.08.2019
OceanaGold Philippines Mine Shut Down – Villagers Blockade Site, Permit Renewal Withheld
09.08.2019
Indigenous Peoples Blockade OceanaGold Mine in the Philippines: Company Operates Despite Expired Licence
10.07.2019
Barrick Negotiations with Papua New Guinea Landowners Stall
26.06.2019
International Media Expose Human Rights Abuses by Security at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Mine in Tanzania
19.06.2019
“Boxing with My Hands Tied Behind My Back”: Barrick Grievance Mechanism in Tanzania Not Fair, Say Lawyer, Village Representatives
11.06.2019
Notes for UN Special Rapporteur on Hazardous Substances and Wastes
03.06.2019
New CEO, Same Human Rights and Environmental Abuses at Barrick Mine Sites
07.05.2019
Canada Still Needs an Ombudsperson to Investigate Mining Cases – Not an Advisor to the Minister of International Trade or another CSR Counsellor
04.05.2019
State Duty to Protect Human Rights: How Canada’s Embassy Staff and Trade Commissioners Are Not Fulfilling Their Duty
30.04.2019
Submission to the United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries
15.03.2019
Nautilus Seeks Financial Protection: Key players looked after at the expense of small shareholders and Papua New Guinea
13.03.2019
No Bankroll for Deep Sea Mining Experiment
20.01.2019
Take Action – Canada’s Promised Human Rights Ombudsperson Has Gone Missing
17.01.2019
GAME OVER! Papua New Guinea Deep Sea Mining Experiment Fails
11.12.2018
Remedy Gone Wrong: Barrick Gold’s Grievance Mechanism in Tanzania Deepens Harm
27.11.2018
Growing Bougainville’s Future: Choices for an Island and its people
12.09.2018
Bougainville: To mine or not to mine?
12.09.2018
Tanzania: Victims of North Mara Gold Mine Violence Find No Justice in New Compensation Scheme
04.09.2018
Inequality of Arms: A summary of concerns raised by victims of violence by private and public mine security at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania regarding the mine’s new Operation-level Grievance Mechanism
04.09.2018
Solwara 1 Project Is a Dangerous and Bad Investment
14.05.2018
What Happened to Boi Nelson Nai at the Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea?
05.02.2018
Response to Barrick Gold Subsidiary Acacia Mining on Alleged Excess Use of Force by Mine Security at the North Mara Gold Mine
19.10.2017
Letter to Acacia Mining re: new report of violent death and ongoing concerns regarding access to remedy for victims at the North Mara Gold Mine
01.09.2017
Correspondence with Acacia Mining re: Use of Force by Mine Security at the North Mara Gold Mine, Tanzania.
29.08.2017
Chemical Exposure at Porgera Mine Anawe Waste Site, Papua New Guinea
20.08.2017
Anger Boils Over at North Mara Mine – Barrick/Acacia Leave Human Rights Abuses Unaddressed
19.07.2017
Barrick Gold Tanzania Operations Accused of Financial and Human Rights Abuses – Executives Once Again Fail to Address Human Rights Abuses
05.07.2017
Nautilus to Go Under Before Reaching the Ocean Floor
20.06.2017
Remarks to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights on Operational-Level Grievance Mechanisms
23.05.2017
Indigenous Women from Papua New Guinea Appeal to Government of Canada for Help Obtaining Remedy for Ongoing Human Rights Abuses at Barrick Mine
09.05.2017
Background: Indigenous Ipili Women Speak Out at Barrick AGM 2017
25.04.2017
Statements and Questions from Everlyn Guape and Joycelyn Mandi at Barrick Gold’s 2017 Annual Meeting
25.04.2017
Village Houses Burnt Down – Again – at Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea; Violence Against Local Men and Women Continues Unabated
28.03.2017
Video Message from Porgera Women to UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
16.11.2016
119 Indigenous Women Demand Justice from Barrick Gold at UN Forum in Geneva
16.11.2016
North Mara, Tanzania – Unanswered questions for Acacia Mining and Barrick Gold
30.09.2016
In Need of Repair: Acacia Mining’s Grievance Mechanism at North Mara Gold Mine, Tanzania
10.05.2016
Victims of Violence at Barrick Mines in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania Demand Justice
26.04.2016
Broken Bones and Broken Promises: Barrick Gold Fails to Address Ongoing Violence at Tanzania Mine
17.11.2015
SOS: The World’s Oceans Facing Emergency; Singapore Summit Set to Worsen the Crisis
05.11.2015
Deep Sea Mining – A new frontier for ecosystem destruction
20.07.2015
Letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights re: Barrick Gold’s Grievance Mechanism at Porgera Mine
13.07.2015
Privatized Remedy and Human Rights: Re-thinking Project-Level Grievance Mechanisms
01.12.2014
Book review: Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea
28.11.2014
Lawyers Say Barrick Thwarts Access to Justice for Victims of Violence
27.11.2014
Brief on Concerns Related to Project-Level Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms
23.10.2014
Canada’s Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Up in the Air Yet Again
27.05.2014
Groups Rally on Parliament Hill to Demand Ombudsman for Extractive Industries
27.05.2014
MiningWatch's Concerns Related to Project-Level Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms
11.04.2014
A Pattern of Abuse: Human Rights at Risk at African Barrick's North Mara Mine in Tanzania
26.03.2014
Submission to the Government of Canada’s Review of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy for the Canadian Extractive Sector
08.01.2014
UN High Commissioner Responds Regarding Barrick’s Porgera Abuses
29.11.2013
The Federal CSR Counsellor Has Left the Building - Can we now have an effective ombudsman mechanism for the extractive sector?
01.11.2013
Philippines: Marinduque ‘Pushed to the Wall’ by Barrick Gold
18.10.2013
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Responds to Allegations Regarding Porgera "Remedy" Framework
05.09.2013
Global Condemnation of Barrick’s Effort to Secure Legal Immunity from Rape Victims
04.06.2013
Barrick Under Global Pressure to Withdraw Conditions on Remedy for PNG Rape Victims
14.05.2013
Letter to UN Commissioner for Human Rights re: Barrick Gold's "grievance" procedure for victims of rape by security guards at the Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea
23.03.2013
Globe and Mail Proclaims on Rapes in Papua New Guinea
15.02.2013
CIDA’s Partnership with Mining Companies Fails to Acknowledge and Address the Role of Mining in the Creation of Development Deficits
29.01.2012
Having the Ruggie Pulled Out From Under Us: From “Sanction and Remedy” to non-judicial grievance mechanisms
06.06.2011
MiningWatch and Papua New Guinea Partners File Complaint on Porgera Mine
06.06.2011
Request for Review of the Operations of Barrick Gold Corp. at the Porgera Joint Venture in Papua New Guinea
15.03.2011
OECD Complaint Filed Against Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines in Mongolia
18.07.2010
Bill C-300 – Private Member's Bill Promotes Industry and Government Accountability
05.01.2010
The Government’s New “CSR Counsellor” for the Extractive Sector
05.01.2010
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development Presentation Regarding Bill C-300
17.11.2009
MiningWatch Canada Position Statement on Bill C-300
16.10.2009
Backgrounder: Issues Related to Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine in Papua New Guinea
17.05.2009
Papua New Guinea Hosts International Meeting on Ocean Dumping of Mine Waste
04.01.2009
Meeting with Partners at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea
04.01.2009
Placer Dome Admits to Killings at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea
08.04.2006
Summary of Findings from Environmental Studies of Calancan Bay related to Surface Disposal Dumping of Mine Tailings into the Bay from the Tapian Pit of the Marcopper Mine
03.02.2006
House of Commons Committee tells Government - “Regulate Canadian Mining Companies Abroad - Investigate TVI Pacific in the Philippines
07.09.2005
38th Parliament, 1st Session: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
23.03.2005
Placer Dome and Corporate Social Responsibility
25.08.2004
INCO's Scott Hand Visits New Caledonia
04.04.2003
New Caledonia Factsheet
08.01.2003
Backgrounder: Asia Pacific Resources in Thailand
17.09.2002
Inco in New Caledonia: Protests Erupt Over Shut Down of Prony and Goro
16.09.2002
Backgrounder: What's INCO doing in New Caledonia?
06.03.2002
Environmental Advisory Committee Chair Quits Over River Pollution at Placer Dome's Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea
15.06.2001
Shareholders Demand Placer Dome Disclose Environmental Risk
17.02.2000