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Lawsuit against Canadian Mining Company Relating to Murder of Mayan Community Leader
Lawsuit against Hudbay Minerals to be announced in Toronto on December 1st
Ceremony Preparations in Mayan Community Struggling Against HudBay/CGN Mining Project. Photo: Sandra Cuffe, 2007.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF LAWSUIT AGAINST MAJOR CANADIAN MINING COMPANY
RELATING TO MURDER OF MAYAN LEADER IN LATIN AMERICA
Toronto, November 29, 2010: On Wednesday December 1, 2010 at 10:30am, lawyers for the widow of a community leader who was shot and hacked to death in an unprovoked attack by private security forces employed at a Canadian mining project in Latin America will announce a lawsuit brought in Ontario courts against a major Canadian mining company.
The murdered man was an outspoken critic of harms caused by Canadian mining activities in his community. To date, no one has been held accountable for his death.
This press announcement comes one month after Parliament voted against Bill C-300, a bill intended to ensure that Canadian mining companies operating abroad act in accordance with Canada’s commitments to international human rights standards.
Other participants will include:
The Honourable Peter Julian: Member of Parliament and author of Bill C-354: legislation which seeks to protect foreign citizens against serious human rights abuses committed by Canadian corporations operating outside of Canada.
Professor Craig Scott: Director of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, and Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Grahame Russell: Co-director of Rights Action, a non-profit organization that works in close proximity with community groups in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico.
WHEN: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 10:30am
WHERE: Suite 400, 4th Floor “Innovation Lab”, 215 Spadina Avenue, Toronto
CONTACT: For details as to time and location only:
Murray Klippenstein, Legal Counsel, 416-937-8634 (mobile)
Silas Polkinghorne, 416-799-5365 (mobile)
For more information see www.chocversushudbay.com, after 10:30 a.m., Dec. 1.
Topics: SolidarityIndigenous
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