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1. Long-Fought-For Ombudsperson Announced to Investigate International Complaints against Canadian Mining Companies
(Mining and Human Rights)
NEWS RELEASE : January 17, 2018 (Ottawa) Today, Canada’s International Trade Minister announced the creation of a Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise to investigate human rights complaints ...
Created on 08 February 2018
2. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities
(Mining and Human Rights)
... this promise never materialized. The office created, called the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), was not independent. It was instead housed under Global Affairs Canada. And it ...
Created on 12 May 2021
3. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
(Mining and Human Rights)
... of activities of such corporations operating abroad. Before Trudeau became prime minister, the Liberals promised to establish an independent ombudsperson on mining. But Trudeau’s government waited nearly ...
Created on 07 May 2021
4. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining
(Regional News)
... A UN working group recently ruled that the the detention of the eight defenders is arbitrary. The defenders have since launched legal action, and Blanca Izaguirre, the country’s human rights ombudsperson ...
Created on 06 May 2021
5. ​Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... an Ombudsperson in Canada who has the necessary investigatory powers to compel witnesses and documents to address complaints against Canadian mining companies.” MiningWatch Canada and the International ...
Created on 25 February 2021
6. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South
(Mining and Human Rights)
... the environment and Indigenous sovereignty is well-established. Any moves they’ve made toward accountability have been halfhearted. The Canada Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), set up to ...
Created on 21 January 2021
7. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried
(OceanaGold)
... the moment, Canada has an ombudsperson role, introduced last year, that reviews claims of human and environmental rights abuses by mining and oil and gas companies. But it doesn’t have the authority to ...
Created on 17 December 2020
8. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... expect that (Canadian mining companies) uphold a high standard of responsible business conduct,” and pointed to an ombudsperson role established last year to ensure companies pursue “socially responsible ...
Created on 04 October 2019
9. Getting the shaft on mining abuses
(Background and reports )
... on its commitment to create an office of an independent ombudsperson that would be able to investigate allegations of abuse at Canadian mine sites and get redress for communities harmed by Canadian mining ...
Created on 05 May 2019
10. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... Tribunal, to declare the country on the verge of water stress, meaning insufficient water resources to meet human demand. Confirming this view, a study by the Office of the Ombudsperson for the Defense ...
Created on 27 August 2018
11. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
Created on 22 June 2018
12. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and 187 homes had been bulldozed and burned in the process. In 2011, the human rights ombudsperson called on the central government to suspend OceanaGold's permit to mine, and was refused. Two anti-mining ...
Created on 26 June 2017
13. Save Our Water, End Investor Rights
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... promote a simple strategy that could save the public billions of dollars. Yanira Cortez, Deputy Attorney for the Environment for El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudsperson's Office and Marcos Gálvez, President ...
Created on 18 May 2015
14. Salvadoran Deputy Ombudswoman for the Defense of Environment rights begins a tour in Canada on the case of OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE  Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez,  began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold ...
Created on 13 May 2015

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