Written by José Luis Abarca and Viviana Herrera, originally published as an opinion piece with Canada's National Observer.
Canada is fighting to have a renewed global say when it comes to human rights, getting an early start on its bid to sit on the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2028-30...
José Luis Abarca is in Ottawa this week to announce a groundbreaking legal complaint against Canada at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, making the case for Canada's legal accountability for human rights abuses tied to its mining companies overseas. José Luis is a lawyer and son of...
Esperanza Salazar is in Ottawa this week to announce a groundbreaking legal complaint against Canada at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, making the case for Canada's legal accountability for human rights abuses tied to its mining companies overseas. Esperanza is a member of the Mexican...
It’s been almost 14 years since prominent Mexican environment defender Mariano Abarca was killed while speaking out against a Canadian mine and his family is still fighting for justice. Mariano’s family and supporters are in Ottawa in June to announce important next steps in their fight for...
From Alaska to Papua New Guinea, communities were paying close attention to Barrick Gold’s annual shareholders meeting on May 2 in Toronto. The meeting came after seven communities affected by Barrick mines launched a Global Week of Action calling out the gap between Barrick’s supposed human...
SCAN! (Seniors for Climate Action Now!) together with co-sponsors, Climate Action Muskoka (CAM) and Environment Haliburton (EH!) have put together a four-part "Climate Emergency and Extraction Series" that kicks off on Wednesday, May 10, at 7pm Eastern time.
The first session will feature a...
Notice to members and partners of the Québec meilleure mine Coalition
From April 24 to May 19, 2023, the public is invited to participate in a consultation on the Quebec mining framework, conducted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests.
The Québec meilleure mine Coalition has...
The struggle to protect the small 736 square-kilometre Island of Sangihe from industrial gold mining by Canada’s Baru Gold Corp. (Baru) continues to play out through public demonstrations of opposition to the project by Sangihe islanders and the Save Sangihe Island Association (SSI), both on the...
In the lead-up to the world’s biggest mining convention, Ontario premier Doug Ford and Mines Minister George Pirie announced a package of amendments to the province’s Mining Act intended to “reduce administrative burden” of developing new mines and “demonstrate responsiveness to feedback received...
On January 18, 2023, as thousands of Peruvians were taking to the streets in Lima to denounce the spiralling political crisis in the country, Canadian Ambassador Louis Marcotte was meeting with the Peruvian Minister of Energy and Mines. Protests have been ongoing since December when populist...
The caribou are life. The existence of the “Caribou Inuit” of the Eastern Arctic is inextricable from that of the great barren-ground caribou herds, yet just as Inuit have had to fight Canada’s imposed genocidal policies, they have had to fight to protect the caribou their lives depend on. This...
We appreciate that you express concern regarding the information we have provided you in our letter of January 27, 2023, about the forced evictions ongoing in Komarera village. We have posted your February 14, 2023 response on our site.
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Join the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA) and MiningWatch Canada for the presentation of the report “Lithium mining in Mexico: Public interest or transnational extractivism?” (“Explotación del litio en México: Interés público o extractivismo transnacional?") – an important...
A new manifesto critiques the "clean energy" transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South.
"The energy transition should be part of a comprehensive vision that addresses radical inequality in the distribution of energy resources and advances energy...
On February 6, 2023, MiningWatch's Asia Pacific Coordinator Catherine Coumans testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the "environmental and human rights considerations regarding Canadian mining firms abroad."
The full recording can be viewed here.
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