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Do out-of-court settlements undermine justice?
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mining , Latin America , global justice , films
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John Hilary
Great film by Michael Watts broadcast earlier this month on Al Jazeera looking at the problems caused when multinational corporations are allowed to settle cases of human rights complicity out of court. The example used is the suppression of local resistance to British company Monterrico's massive Rio Blanco copper mine in Peru.
Goldcorp update
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mining , global justice
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Last month saw a strange twist in the campaign against Goldcorp, the Canadian mining giant accused of causing grave environmental damage around the Marlin mine in Guatemala. Community leaders waging the fight against Goldcorp have sued Guatemalan Supreme Court Chief Justice Erick Alvarez for having illegally acquired the land where the mine is located over nine years ago. At the time Alvarez was working for Peridot, a company linked to a GoldCorp subsidiary.
All that glitters...
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mining , global justice
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It's been well-documented that the economic crisis has had a disproportionate impact on the world's poor, particularly in terms of jobs lost. But for thousands of indigenous Guatemalans, the crisis-generated spike in gold prices – and a resulting surge in gold mining – is perhaps an even greater threat.
