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Catherine Coumans

Ph.D. Research Coordinator and Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator
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Blog Entries

Sangihe Islanders Win Another Important Legal Victory Against Canada’s Baru Gold’s Plans to Mine on the Small Island
21.03.2023
Letter to Barrick Gold: Ongoing Concerns About Forced Evictions
27.02.2023
Catherine Coumans Testifies Before Standing Committee on International Trade
06.02.2023
Letter to Barrick Gold: Forced Evictions and Related Human Rights Abuses Ongoing at North Mara Gold Mine
27.01.2023
Urgent Letter to Barrick Gold: Halt Forced Evictions at the North Mara Gold Mine
18.10.2022
Barrick Gold Corp.’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine: A Legacy of Ignoring Human and Environmental Rights Abuses
27.06.2022
Proposed Revisions to the National Contact Point Again Fall Short of Necessary Reforms
20.05.2022
Global Support for a Moratorium or Ban on Deep Seabed Mining
20.01.2022
Canada’s Role in Deep Seabed Mining
20.01.2022
Comments on Nauru Ocean Resources Incorporated's Collector Test Environmental Impact Statement
08.12.2021
Canada’s Role in Deep Seabed Mining
22.06.2021
Canadian Organizations Call on Canada to Halt Mining of the Seabed
03.02.2021
Canada’s National Contact Point is Long Overdue for an Overhaul
07.10.2020
Parliamentary Petition Addresses Human Rights Crisis in the Philippines, Mining, and Canada's Role
22.09.2020
Papua New Guinea Landowners' Fears Confirmed: Bismarck Sea At Risk; Canadian Conic Metals Unresponsive
17.06.2020
Papua New Guinea Seeks to Amend 1992 Mining Act – Implications for Renewal of Porgera Mine Lease
12.06.2020
Civil Society of Tonga Speaks Out Against Plans to Mine the Deep Sea
08.06.2020
Barrick Gold AGM 2020 – CEO Mark Bristow Responds to Questions about North Mara Mine in Tanzania
05.05.2020
Barrick Gold AGM 2020 – CEO Mark Bristow Responds to Questions about Porgera Mine
05.05.2020
Still No Justice for Marinduque’s Mining Victims
24.03.2020
Mining the Deep Sea: Stories for Suckers, and Corporate Capture of the UN
30.10.2019
Protests in Ottawa and Vancouver Part of Global Day of Action Against Oceanagold
09.08.2019
International Media Expose Human Rights Abuses by Security at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Mine in Tanzania
19.06.2019
Canada Still Needs an Ombudsperson to Investigate Mining Cases – Not an Advisor to the Minister of International Trade or another CSR Counsellor
04.05.2019
Take Action – Canada’s Promised Human Rights Ombudsperson Has Gone Missing
17.01.2019
Remedy Gone Wrong: Barrick Gold’s Grievance Mechanism in Tanzania Deepens Harm
27.11.2018
What Happened to Boi Nelson Nai at the Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea?
05.02.2018
Response to Barrick Gold Subsidiary Acacia Mining on Alleged Excess Use of Force by Mine Security at the North Mara Gold Mine
19.10.2017
Letter to Acacia Mining re: new report of violent death and ongoing concerns regarding access to remedy for victims at the North Mara Gold Mine
01.09.2017
Correspondence with Acacia Mining re: Use of Force by Mine Security at the North Mara Gold Mine, Tanzania.
29.08.2017
Chemical Exposure at Porgera Mine Anawe Waste Site, Papua New Guinea
20.08.2017
Background: Indigenous Ipili Women Speak Out at Barrick AGM 2017
25.04.2017
Statements and Questions from Everlyn Guape and Joycelyn Mandi at Barrick Gold’s 2017 Annual Meeting
25.04.2017
Video Message from Porgera Women to UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
16.11.2016
North Mara, Tanzania – Unanswered questions for Acacia Mining and Barrick Gold
30.09.2016
In Need of Repair: Acacia Mining’s Grievance Mechanism at North Mara Gold Mine, Tanzania
10.05.2016
Deep Sea Mining – A new frontier for ecosystem destruction
20.07.2015
Letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights re: Barrick Gold’s Grievance Mechanism at Porgera Mine
13.07.2015
Book review: Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea
28.11.2014
Lawyers Say Barrick Thwarts Access to Justice for Victims of Violence
27.11.2014
Canada’s Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Up in the Air Yet Again
27.05.2014
UN High Commissioner Responds Regarding Barrick’s Porgera Abuses
29.11.2013
The Federal CSR Counsellor Has Left the Building - Can we now have an effective ombudsman mechanism for the extractive sector?
01.11.2013
Philippines: Marinduque ‘Pushed to the Wall’ by Barrick Gold
18.10.2013
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Responds to Allegations Regarding Porgera "Remedy" Framework
05.09.2013
Global Condemnation of Barrick’s Effort to Secure Legal Immunity from Rape Victims
04.06.2013
Barrick Under Global Pressure to Withdraw Conditions on Remedy for PNG Rape Victims
14.05.2013
Letter to UN Commissioner for Human Rights re: Barrick Gold's "grievance" procedure for victims of rape by security guards at the Porgera Joint Venture mine in Papua New Guinea
23.03.2013
Globe and Mail Proclaims on Rapes in Papua New Guinea
15.02.2013
Having the Ruggie Pulled Out From Under Us: From “Sanction and Remedy” to non-judicial grievance mechanisms
06.06.2011
MiningWatch and Papua New Guinea Partners File Complaint on Porgera Mine
06.06.2011
Request for Review of the Operations of Barrick Gold Corp. at the Porgera Joint Venture in Papua New Guinea
15.03.2011
OECD Complaint Filed Against Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines in Mongolia
18.07.2010
Bill C-300 – Private Member's Bill Promotes Industry and Government Accountability
05.01.2010
The Government’s New “CSR Counsellor” for the Extractive Sector
05.01.2010
MiningWatch Canada Position Statement on Bill C-300
16.10.2009
Backgrounder: Issues Related to Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine in Papua New Guinea
17.05.2009
Papua New Guinea Hosts International Meeting on Ocean Dumping of Mine Waste
04.01.2009
Meeting with Partners at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea
04.01.2009
Placer Dome Admits to Killings at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea
08.04.2006
Summary of Findings from Environmental Studies of Calancan Bay related to Surface Disposal Dumping of Mine Tailings into the Bay from the Tapian Pit of the Marcopper Mine
03.02.2006
House of Commons Committee tells Government - “Regulate Canadian Mining Companies Abroad - Investigate TVI Pacific in the Philippines
07.09.2005
38th Parliament, 1st Session: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
23.03.2005
Placer Dome and Corporate Social Responsibility
25.08.2004
INCO's Scott Hand Visits New Caledonia
04.04.2003
New Caledonia Factsheet
08.01.2003
Backgrounder: Asia Pacific Resources in Thailand
17.09.2002
Inco in New Caledonia: Protests Erupt Over Shut Down of Prony and Goro
16.09.2002
Backgrounder: What's INCO doing in New Caledonia?
06.03.2002

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