Plaintiffs allege security strategy directly caused extensive human rights abuses
Joseph Morton, Mugglehead Magazine
A Canadian gold mining giant has been charged with human rights violations for its activities in Tanzania.
Colin McClelland, Mining.com
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is arguing in an Ontario court that allegations of human rights abuses in Tanzania should be decided in that country instead, with local police and a subsidiary of the Toronto-based major as defendants.
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Ottawa/Toronto – Today hearings commence in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto on behalf of 32 plaintiffs[1] from Tanzania against Barrick Gold Corporation (Barrick).[2]
This year, MiningWatch gathered information on alleged violence against Kuria villagers in 2023 and 2024 carried out by police assigned to the mine. We received information on 28 cases and conducted interviews with alleged victims and family members of those who have been killed. The 28 cases include villagers who have been shot and killed, shot and survived, beaten to death, arrested and tortured, and maimed in a life-altering way through being hit by a teargas canister.
Brent Forrester, CBC News
Indigenous women from Ecuador are in Ottawa this week raising concerns a proposed free trade agreement could enable human rights abuses by Canadian mining companies operating on their ancestral lands.
The delegation travelled thousands of kilometres from the rural reaches of the Ecuadorian Amazon to Canada's capital city, bringing what they say is an urgent message of grave concern to the doorstep of Parliament Hill.
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Toronto – Four women leaders on the front lines of increasingly dangerous efforts to protect rights and the environment in Ecuador will visit Canada next week to speak out against intensifying trade talks aimed at expanding Canadian resource extraction projects in ecologically vulnerable regions.
Canada and Ecuador are in their fourth round of negotiations towards a free trade agreement set to dramatically expand Canadian mining investment in the South American country.
Trial of Water Defenders in El Salvador Begins October 8
Leading international groups, lawyers, and academics announce consecutive weeks of action to call on the Salvadoran government to drop charges ahead of Oct. 8 trial against five prominent water defenders known as the "Santa Marta Five."
By Olivia Alperstein, John Cavanagh, Pedro Cabezas
MONTREAL - After years fighting against the opening of a mining project with ties to the Pentagon, Louis Saint-Hilaire is breathing a sigh of relief.
That’s because this week, the Quebec government rejected the mining company’s application for public funding, a decision Saint-Hilaire says reflects the will of many of the people who live near the proposed site in the Laurentians region.
“It’s a big victory for us, but it’s not a total victory,” he said in an interview Wednesday.
“We are dying, ...we have no shelter from the rain, ...we are eating tree bark”
Ottawa – An already desperate situation at the site of Barrick Gold Corp.’s (Barrick) New Porgera Ltd.’s (Porgera) gold mine in the highlands of Papua New Guinea has become deadly for local Indigenous villagers in Porgera, who wonder why Barrick is doing nothing to help them.
