Communities and ecosystems across the globe face heavy environmental damage from intensifying mining operations. A people’s tribunal probed the Canadian mining industry’s impact on the natural world and the people defending it.
Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization is vowing to fight a now-concluded free trade agreement with Canada, warning it could encourage human rights abuses in the ecologically and culturally diverse South American country.
Depuis une semaine, différentes communautés autochtones de l’Équateur ont parcouru ensemble le Canada pour partager leurs inquiétudes face à l’accord de libre-échange en cours de négociations entre leur pays et le Canada.
Women leaders engaged in dangerous efforts to protect rights and the environment in Ecuador will visit Canada next week to speak out against trade talks aimed at expanding and attracting Canadian investment in resource extraction projects in ecologically vulnerable regions.
From the perspective of investment-affected communities, foreign investments arise out of a partnership between the investor and the state. Impacted people are often not consulted or involved in project establishment or development.
Investor-state dispute settlement allows foreign investors to sue governments for billions. A new report highlights this international legal system harms Indigenous Latin Americans.