The COVID-19 pandemic has been a particularly difficult time for the Shuar Arutam People (PSHA) of the Ecuadorian Amazon in the defense of their territory and their ongoing resistance against large-scale mining. The government and mining companies took advantage of the pandemic to intensify the invasion by extractive industries on multiple fronts. This case study was written by the Shuar Arutam People (PSHA) in collaboration wth Amazon Watch, ICCA Consortium, Fundación Tiam, LluviaComunicación, MiningWatch Canada and Witness (based on personal interviews with Josefina Tunki, president of the PSHA). 

(Val-d'Or, Quebec) Five regional and national organizations are joining forces to ask the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources to withdraw all 5161 mining claims covering all or part of the eskers in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region and to immediately withdraw mining activities on eskers that are not currently claimed.

A new report developed by the Coalition against the Mining Pandemic - Latin America unmasks the unbridled advance of mining during the pandemic, for which reason communities and peoples in Latin America could not let their guard down even while taking measures to protect themselves from COVID-19.

Tailings dams in South Africa pose serious risks to communities and ecosystems

The Mine Tailings Working Group of South Africa, a partnership of civil society groups including the Bench Marks Foundation, Federation for Sustainable Environment (FSE). IANRA invites you to a hybrid seminar that will take place at the University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein campus. The seminar will meet in the Boardroom. Map here.

Police repression is increasing against communities in Andalgalá, Argentina who are peacefully opposing Yamana Gold and Newmont Mining's joint MARA project. Concerned about the severity of repression in Andalgalá, we're writing to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to support the petition for precautionary measures. 

MiningWatch Canada and OECD Watch have submitted extensive feedback to Canada’s National Contact Point as it reviews its procedures. Once again, we’ve found that the proposed changes are falling short of the much-needed reforms to that office. 

Read the full feedback to the NCP here.

Background – A history of NCP ineffectiveness and deepening harm to notifiers

Take action! Canadian mining companies and their subsidiaries are implicated in serious human rights abuses and environmental damage around the globe. Yet instead of establishing rules requiring Canadian companies to respect human rights and the environment, Canada continues to rely on voluntary measures for corporate accountability. Experience shows that voluntary measures don’t work. But there’s hope. Two new private member’s bills tabled in March 2022 could help protect people and the planet from corporate abuse — if they get enough support. Call on your Member of Parliament to take action and support Bill C-262 and C-263 today.

(May 12, 2022) An international coalition of activists delivered a petition to Pan American Silver leadership at the company’s annual meeting yesterday calling on the company to respect communities’ self-determination in Guatemala and Argentina.

Eight miners are trapped in a mine owned by a Vancouver-based company. Advocates want more accountability.

By Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee

(Ottawa) The Alberta Court of Appeal today released its long-delayed opinion on the Government of Alberta’s challenge of the federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA), ruling in a four-to-one split decision that the law is unconstitutional and serves as a “Trojan Horse” to impose federal decision-making on provincial jurisdiction.