All are not equal before the law in Guatemala
Last June, I got asked to help with translation for folks working on a documentary about the international declaration on ...
Tag: Canadian mining abuses
Victims silenced: Gang rape survivors denied speaking rights at Barrick Gold’s AGM in Toronto
Everlyn Gaupe and Joycelyn Mandi travelled across the planet from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to downtown Toronto to ...
Murder of Guatemalan youth is evidence of escalating risk to land defenders
North American organizations are dismayed by the execution-style murder of 22 year-old Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima, assistant to the director ...
B.C. Supreme Court stays lawsuit against Tahoe Resources, denies justice in Canada for Guatemalan victims
Canadian and U.S. organizations are calling a British Columbia judge’s refusal to hear a lawsuit against Tahoe Resources over violence ...
Guatemalan government moves to expel witnesses to police violence at US-Canadian mine site
Last week, Guatemalan authorities informed two Peace Brigades International (PBI) volunteers that their temporary residence permits were cancelled and that ...
Public memorial held in Toronto after assassination of teenage activist resisting Goldcorp/Tahoe Resources mine in Guatemala
Toronto - On May 1st, as Goldcorp announced the year’s profits at their annual shareholder meeting in Vancouver, more somber ...
The Globe and Mail as corporate apologists: behind the love affair with Barrick Gold
In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates among the Ipili people, who were ...
Indigenous protesters blockading mine owned by Vancouver-based Goldcorp assaulted, taken hostage
On Feb. 28, 2011, communities took action to pressure the government of Guatemala to carry out the Precautionary Measures MC-260-07 ...
A Planned Hit
Son of man who spoke out at Goldcorp AGM assassinated in Guatemala In May of 2009, Arturo Méndez visited Vancouver. ...