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Control the Corporations

Canadian mining companies operate around the world and dominate the sector in number and the amount of capital raised for exploration. But there are no regulations or controls on their activities to prevent them from profiting from weak protection for the environment, workers, indigenous peoples and human rights in host countries.

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Another Protester Against Pacific Rim Mining Corporation's El Dorado Project Assassinated in El Salvador - Second Community Activist Killed in Less Than a Week

28.12.2009
Blog

Canada-Ecuador: When Stock Exchanges Fuel Human Rights Violations

24.12.2009
News Release

Mining and Jewelry Industry Self Certification System Falls Short

21.12.2009
News Release

Documents Show Corruption and Intimidation by Canadian Mining Firm Blackfire in Its Mexican operations – Ottawa Must Investigate Immediately

18.12.2009
News Release

Guatemalan Community Leaders ask Canadian Government to Investigate Human Rights Violations Allegedly Committed by Goldcorp Inc. at Marlin Mine

09.12.2009
News Release

Mexican Activist Murdered for Opposing Canadian Mining Company - Killing Sparks Protest at Canadian Embassy in Mexico City

03.12.2009
News Release

Mexicans Celebrate End of New Gold Inc.’s Cerro de San Pedro Mine - Criminal and civil proceedings to begin against company management in Mexico and Canada

19.11.2009
Presentation

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development Presentation Regarding Bill C-300

17.11.2009
News Release

Mexico To Shut Down New Gold’s Cerro de San Pedro Mine - Canadian Parliamentarians and Mexican Congress members urge company to comply with the law

12.11.2009
News Release

Canadian Company Accused of Disobeying Court, Misleading Shareholders - Citizens’ group argues New Gold violated disclosure rules in a complaint lodged with BC Securities Commission

10.11.2009
Blog

MiningWatch Canada Position Statement on Bill C-300

16.10.2009
Publication

Land and Conflict: Resource Extraction, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility - Canadian Companies in Colombia

01.10.2009
Blog

Urgent Action: Threats and Violence Against Community Leaders in Cabañas, El Salvador

21.08.2009
Blog

URGENT ACTION: Bill C-300 – Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas Corporations in Developing Countries

18.08.2009
Friends of MiningWatch

Panamanian Organisations and Communities Unite Against Open-Pit Mining

01.06.2009
Blog

Backgrounder: Issues Related to Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine in Papua New Guinea

17.05.2009
News Release

MiningWatch Appeals to U.N. over Human Rights Abuses Related to Barrick Mine in Papua New Guinea

08.05.2009
News Release

Indigenous Leaders from Papua New Guinea, Chile Raise Serious Human Rights and Environmental Concerns Around Barrick Gold Operations

06.05.2009
News Release

Amnesty International Issues Action Alert on Bill C-300

20.04.2009
Blog

What Role for Canada in the Americas? Corporate Accountability and the Extractive Industries

05.04.2009
News Release

Government Squanders Opportunity to Hold Extractive Companies to Account

26.03.2009
News Release

Norwegian Pension Fund Excludes Barrick Gold on Ethical Grounds

02.02.2009
Blog

Meeting with Partners at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea

04.01.2009
News Release

Petaquilla: Panamanian Rainforest, Communities Threatened by Mining

04.01.2009
Blog

Letter to Shareholder Group re: Human Rights Impact Assessment for Goldcorp's Guatemala Mine

15.12.2008
Friends of MiningWatch

IUCN Assembly Opposes Mining In Central America

11.12.2008
Blog

Pacific Rim Files Notice of Intent to Seek CAFTA Arbitration

09.12.2008
News Release

Alert to Investors re: Petaquilla Minerals and the Molejón Gold Mine in Panama

18.11.2008
News Release

First Ever in Latin America: Mining Corporation Charged with “Crimes Against the Environment” in Argentina

18.06.2008
News Release

Barrick Gold’s Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea linked to grave human rights abuses, environmental impacts

12.05.2008
Blog

Investing in Conflict - Public Money, Private Gain: Goldcorp in the Americas

04.05.2008
News Release

Publication of Congo mining contract review welcome; renegotiations should be fair and transparent

25.03.2008
News Release

NGOs fear that Congolese mining contract review process has been hijacked: Time for authorities in Europe, North America to act

04.02.2008
Friends of MiningWatch

Landowners Blockade Excellon Resources' Platosa Mine in Durango, Mexico After Company Fails to Respond to Demands

23.01.2008
Blog

Xstrata Faces Growing Criticism Over Koniambo Nickel Project in Kanaky-New Caledonia

21.01.2008
Blog

Urgent Appeal to United Nations Special Rapporteurs Regarding Human Rights Abuses at Porgera Mine

02.12.2007
News Release

Open Letter to His Excellency President Martín Torrijos Espino

30.11.2007
Blog

Breaching Indigenous Law: Canadian Mining in Guatemala

14.11.2007
Blog

Summary Review of Skye Resources’ Technical Report on an Update to the Fenix Project, Izabal, Guatemala

30.10.2007
Blog

Frequently Asked Questions

31.08.2007

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Mining can have serious effects on surface and subsurface water

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Canadian mining companies operate around the world without regulations

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