Corporate Knights, “Going Deeper Underground”, September 27, 2011
In Guatemala, victims of human rights abuses involving Canadian mining companies are left to pick up the pieces. At home in Canada, company lawyers skirt around questions of accountability, and justice ultimately falls through the cracks.
CBC Radio, The Sunday Edition, “Unfinished Business”, September 25, 2011
[T]he anti mining forces are fighting back in a new way. Guatemalans are launching law suits in Canadian courts against Canadian mining companies.
The latest is a multi million dollar claim against Hud Bay Minerals filed by 11 Mayan women allegedly raped when they were cleared off the land 4 years ago. The law suits are a new tactic in an old war – a war over land: – the government and the mining companies on one side, the Mayans and human rights workers on the other.
Canadian Lawyer In House, “Firm hopes to keep HudBay lawsuits alive despite sale”, August 15, 2011“
A Toronto law firm is pushing for lawsuits against Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals Inc. regarding alleged human rights abuses to continue despite the fact the company no longer owns the project where the alleged killing of one man and gang rape of 11 women occurred.”
Mining Weekly, “Guatemalan lawsuits to continue against HudBay, says lawyer”, August 10, 2011
“We believe this sale was prompted in part by the severe human rights issues at HudBay’s Fenix project that dogged the company at every turn,” said Murray Klippenstein, a lawyer representing one of the victims.
The Prince George Citizen, UNBC students, prof at leading edge of human rights lawsuit, April 2, 2011
“A landmark lawsuit launched by 11 Guatemalan women against Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals and its subsidiaries alleging rape, beatings and forced evictions has a UNBC connection.”
CBC, “HudBay to investigate gang rape allegations”, March 29, 2011
“Toronto-based HudBay Minerals Inc. said Tuesday that it will investigate allegations that security personnel, along with members of the police and military, attacked and gang-raped several women in 2007 during efforts to clear people from lands near a mining project in Guatemala.”
Mining Weekly, “Guatemalan widow’s lawsuit against HudBay could be precedent-setting”, February 18, 2010
“The trial of a Guatemalan woman who is suing Canadian miner HudBay Minerals for C$12-million in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for the death of her husband in 2009 is “probably years away” Angelica Choc ’s lawyer said on Thursday.”
CBC, “Widow Files $12M suit against mining company”, December 1, 2010
“A Guatemalan woman has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Canadian mining giant HudBay Minerals, claiming it is responsible for the death of her husband.”
CBC, “As it Happens”, Guatemala Mining Lawsuit, December 1, 2010
“The lawyer is Canadian, and so is the company. But in a civil suit announced today, the allegations are of actions committed in Guatemala. That’s where HudBay Minerals Inc. and its subsidiaries operate a nickel-mining project.”
Prensa Libre, “¡Justicidio, no!” (Spanish)
” ‘Yo exijo justicia’ fueron las primeras palabras que escuché decir con fuerza a Angélica Choc, antes de romper en llanto mientras narraba cómo las fuerzas de seguridad de la Compañía Guatemalteca de Níquel, subsidiaria de la minera canadiense HudBay Minerals, asesinaron a machetazos y remataron con un balazo a su esposo.”
Prensa Libre, “Guatemalteca demanda a minera de Canadá por muerte de su cónyuge”, 2 Diciembre 2010 (Spanish)
“Una indígena guatemalteca presentó una demanda en un tribunal de Canadá alegando que su marido fue asesinado por un guardia de una mina de capital canadiense en Guatemala.”
CTV’s W5: Paradise Lost
W5 reports on Canadian mining in Guatemala, including the death of Adolfo Ich Chamán.
Documentary: Violent Evictions at El Estor
Short documentary depicting the forced evictions that occurred in the municipality of El Estor in early 2007. The evictions were requested by HMI Nickel (formerly Skye Resources).