Between 2022 and 2024, Indigenous Kuria from villages surrounding North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania filed cases in Canada against Barrick Gold Corporation for alleged human rights abuses in and around the North Mara mine. MiningWatch Canada attended the hearings in Toronto and has prepared this report where we:
- Expand on the legal context for the cases brought against Barrick in Canada
- Reflect on the use of national police and military as security by Canadian multinational mining companies
- Consider the issue of parent company accountability
- Discuss legal arguments made by counsel for Barrick in the context of international human rights law
- Reflect on the role of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
- Provide excepts from the Plaintiffs' Factum; Barrick’s Factums; affidavits from Grant Beringer, Johann Sebastiaan Bock, Apolinary Lyambiko; cross examination of Johann Sebastiaan Bock; and Justice E.M. Morgan’s ruling