The…Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)…claimed that...in the Canadian legal system, “…it is nearly impossible for foreign citizens to bring lawsuits involving egregious environmental and human rights violations in Canadian courts"…[citing] a 1997 lawsuit filed by Guyanese villagers against Cambior Corporation regarding [its] alleged negligence surrounding a dam break disaster along the Omai River…[and that] “this catastrophe resulted in mass contamination and fatalities.”…COHA said child labour is also a “widespread problem” within the Guyanese mining industry. Most recently, it said an eight-year-old child was found labouring in a gold mine…near the Venezuelan border…[and that]…indigenous groups lost a “crucial court case” filed against mining companies, when Guyanese High Court decided that it does not have the right to expel miners from their lands…