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January 17, 2018

Watchdog to investigate complaints about overseas Canadian mining companies

he federal government has announced establishment of a watchdog to investigate claims of human rights abuses against Canadian companies overseas. The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has been one of the groups who have fought for oversight of overseas Canadian mining operations since the 1990s.
A 20-year fight for government oversight of Canadian mining companies overseas has resulted in an watchdog who will soon have power to independently investigate human rights abuses.
Published in Canada
July 6, 2017

Church officials upset that Myanmar’s won’t allow U.N. rights investigators

A Rohingya woman holds her 2-month-old baby in early February at a refugee shelter in Medan, Indonesia. The woman and her husband fled persecution in their village in Myanmar and have been waiting for two years to be resettled to Malaysia or Australia.

YANGON, Myanmar – Church officials have expressed disappointment over the refusal of Myanmar's government to grant visas to three members of a U.N. fact-finding mission to investigate alleged human rights abuses by security forces against the Rohingya minority.

Published in International