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Article

6 Jun 2017

Author:
Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press

Canada human rights plans fraught with peril, say experts and activists

"We still do not have the laws and policies in place to hold our mining companies to account for their human rights performance when they leave the country,"... Alex Neve, the secretary general of Amnesty International Canada,...said, "It's a significant shortcoming and would really undermine what is at the heart of the ministers' vision."... Phil Robertson, the deputy Asian director of Human Rights Watch, said,...In countries such as Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia, "there are still ongoing issues with vulnerable minorities,"... Well-intentioned Canadians need to be wary, he said, of "assurances that everything is sorted, the land is completely free to be used" because that might not be the case. Luis Fernando Monroy... was part of group protesting the environmental impact the Canadian mine was having on his rural southeastern Guatemalan community, the disruption of rural life in the indigenous area and a lack of consultation.... Monroy said,... "We don't need these big companies coming in saying they're bringing development when really what's happening is destruction."

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