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Statement of Solidarity and International Support to Ecuadorian Communities and Organizations

03.07.2026

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Why Is a Canadian Junior Mining Company Hiring a MAGA Extremist?

03.07.2026
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New Report Sounds Alarm on Risks of Unregulated Radioactivity from Deep Sea Mining

30.06.2026
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Ni-Co Energy (TSXV: NICE) Kremer Project Lacks Social Licence

23.06.2026
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Mining Claims: A United Front of Anishinabe Chiefs Calls for Respect for Rights and the Participation of First Nations in the Claims Staking Process

22.06.2026
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Court Authorizes Broad Participation of Organizations in CQDE’s Challenge to "Projects of National Interest” Act (C-5) 

19.06.2026
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Civil Society Groups and MPs Denounce Elimination of Office of Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE)

18.06.2026

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MiningWatch Calls on Canada to Strengthen the CORE, Not Eliminate It

18.06.2026
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Civil Society Calls on Panama to Permanently Close Canadian-Owned Mine as President Mulino Considers Next Steps

15.06.2026
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Celebrating Nine Years of Peaceful Xinka Resistance: For life and our land, here we are!

14.06.2026

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On World Environment Day, Communities in the Dominican Republic Call for Environmental Accountability

05.06.2026
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Penco Calls for Mobilization Against Rare Earth Project Ahead of Key Vote: “We Will Not Become a Sacrifice Zone”

04.06.2026
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Canada's "critical minerals" strategy built on major data gaps, new report finds

21.05.2026
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Media reactive: Feds leave “important” Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise leaderless for a year, complainants remain in limbo

21.05.2026

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Barrick's Virtual AGM Curtails Meaningful Engagement with Stakeholders

08.05.2026
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Global Communities Alert Barrick Shareholders to Serious Allegations of Human Rights and Environmental Impacts

08.05.2026
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Prominent Canadians Urge Halt to Canada–Ecuador Free Trade Deal, Cite Dangerous Risks to Rights and the Environment

07.05.2026

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Letter to Development Banks: Civil Society Organizations Express Concern over Human Rights Risks at Reko Diq mine

05.05.2026

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Letter to Prime Minister Carney: Canadian Organizations Urge Decisive Action on Unilateral Deep-sea Mining

28.04.2026
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The Opposition is Growing: Eleven Organizations Seek to Intervene in Lawsuit Against Bill C-5

27.04.2026
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MiningWatch Joins Global Call for Governments to ‘Free Themselves’ from International System of Secretive Tribunals

23.04.2026

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Don’t Neglect Your CORE: Canada’s Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise

21.04.2026
Friends of MiningWatch

Businesses, Conservation Groups Urge Independent Oversight of Massive Coal Mine Expansion in Polluted Kootenai Watershed

15.04.2026

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BC's Revised EA Process - When is an expedited process not an expedited process?

10.04.2026
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Ontario Court of Appeal Rules on Human Rights Case of Tanzanian Plaintiffs against Barrick Mining

07.04.2026
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Plaintiffs react to Ontario Court of Appeal Ruling that Lawsuit Against Barrick Mining Corporation for Human Rights Abuse in Tanzania Cannot Be Heard in Canada

07.04.2026
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The Metals Company's Own Analysis Shows Project “Cannot Be Profitable”

26.03.2026
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Wildsight requests independent review of Fording River mine expansion impacts

25.03.2026

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Marinduqueños Commemorate Mining Disasters - Celebrate $100 Million Legal Victory over Canadian Mining Company

25.03.2026

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MiningWatch's Rodrigue Turgeon Testifies Before the Standing Committee on National Defence as Part of its Study on the Nexus between National Security, National Defence, and Critical Minerals

18.03.2026
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77 Civil Society Organizations Call on the Canadian Embassy in Ecuador to Speak Out on the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders by DPM Metals Inc.

11.03.2026

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National and International Organizations Express Concern over Another Ruling Against Environmental Defenders Regarding Curipamba–El Domo Mining Project in Ecuador

27.02.2026
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Civil Society Leaders Rally Behind BC Declaration Act

18.02.2026

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Ten Years After the Worst Spill in Argentina’s History, Communities Express Concern about Fish Deaths near Barrick's Veladero Mine

17.02.2026

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Indigenous & Campesino Communities in Cuenca, Ecuador Tell the Canadian Embassy: NO Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Ecuador, and NO to Canadian Mining

04.02.2026
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Law School Clinic Warns UN Human Rights Committee: New Federal and Provincial Laws Violate Indigenous Self-Determination and Democratic Rights.

02.02.2026

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Interrogating “Critical Minerals” Event Series

07.01.2026
Friends of MiningWatch

Neskantaga First Nation Launches Land-Based Action to Halt Unauthorized Mining Exploration

16.12.2025
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Community Group Highlights Outstanding Approvals for Record Ridge Mine

12.12.2025

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One year after reporting threats, the Santurbán Committee questions Aris Mining’s response and the Canadian government’s silence

10.12.2025

Webinar - Standing Up to the Escobal Mine: Celebrating Nine Years of the Xinka People’s Resistance Encampment

On June 16th, we gathered online to celebrate and show solidarity with over fifteen years of the Xinka People’s peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine, which they halted in mid-operation in 2017 when they set up a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week resistance camp that is still ongoing today. Their valiant efforts and organization strategies have successfully kept the Escobal Mine closed in their territories, as they exercise their right to self-determination and territorial autonomy.