Canada: Canadian Government Abdicates Responsibility To Ensure Respect For Human Rights

Canada: Canadian Government Abdicates Responsibility To Ensure Respect For Human Rights   Without ruling on allegations of human rights violations, the Canadian government has closed a complaint from indigenous communities affected by Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in Guatemala. The decision marks the end of a process that was both procedurally and substantively deficient, and provides yet another example of Canada’s failure to ensure that its mining industry respects human rights around the...

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