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Mining and resource extraction
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KAIROS is concerned about the growing pattern of Canadian resource extraction companies whose overseas activities are having a negative impact on the environment and human rights, including the rights of indigenous peoples. Canadian mining companies are operating worldwide and their presence is expanding—as is our government’s support for their operations. We’re focusing on several specific cases at the request of our partners, and we’re joining a cross-Canada effort calling on the Canadian government to hold the extractive industry legally accountable for its actions overseas and here in Canada. The African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES) is a KAIROS-funded partner with a pan-African network secretariat at Third World Network - Africa. AIMES recently called on the Government of Canada to regulate Canadian mining companies operating internationally as part of the 2006 National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries. The Canadian Government has regretfully yet to respond to the consensus recommendations Report on Mining, Oil and Gas Companies made by Canadian civil society organizations and industry in March 2007. AIMES has issued a Position Statement on the 10th Annual Strategy Meeting of African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society, June 24-25th, 2008, Accra, Ghana. Update on Mexican community's resistance to a Canadian mine (March 2008) Listen to Giving
Canadians a Bad Name: A radio drama about Canadian mining in
Mexico. Check out the 2006-07 DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE campaign on mining and corporate accountability: http://www.devp.org/devpme/eng/education/educationcampaign-eng.html We’re also a member of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, which is coordinating civil society’s work on extractive industries like mining and oil and gas. Click
here to learn more about the CNCA
petition in support of mandatory regulation of Canadian companies
working overseas
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(MP3
format, 12 minutes) You're free to download this play but if you're
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