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How will human rights abuses & environmental harm stop happening at Canadian mine sites abroad? By holding companies accountable šš½ right here in Canada, where 50% of mining companies worldwide are headquartered. A š§µon the urgent need for corporate accountability #GetAccountable 
Saying NO to Canadian mining can be dangerous ā including in #Ecuador, where Josefina Tunki (Pres of the Shuar Arutam People) is being threatened for speaking out against #SolarisResources' #Warintza project in their territory. #GetAccountable | For more: miningwatch.ca/blog/2021/8/31ā¦
Communities near Canadian mine sites often have to contend with significant police violence. Latest reports from @raidukorg document killings and injuries of local residents by police assigned to #BarrickGold's #NorthMara mine in #Tanzania. #GetAccountable
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1| I try to focus on a single story in every post, but I want us to have proportions. So let's compare and contrast #Israel's response to @benandjerrys's not wanting to be complicit in its #WarCrimes, to Israel's actual war crimes.
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1| I try to focus on a single story in every post, but I want us to have proportions. So let's compare and contrast #Israel's response to @benandjerrys's not wanting to be complicit in its #WarCrimes, to Israel's actual war crimes.
imemc.org/article/israelā¦
2| The beautiful soul in this picture is 11 year-old Mohammad āAllami, who was executed by Israel's army, when he was convincing his daddy to go back to a shop to by him something. Mohammad's sister was also in the car, she wasn't physically injured.
3| Mohammad 'Allami is the 312th indigenous #Palestinian to be killed by Israel's army since the beginning of 2021, the 52nd to be executed in the #WestBank, the 76th #child executed in total, the11th child to be executed in the West Bank.
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ochaopt.org/data/casualties
THREAD: Monterrico, a UK mining company that established a mine in the pristine environment of an indigenous community in Peru and allegedly facilitated human rights abuses, including torture, of protesters by the police #CorporateAccountability #BizHumanRights 1/12
In August 2005, communities living near the Rio Blanco copper mine, in a remote and beautiful area of Peru near the Ecuadorian border, took part in an environmental protest against its development. 2/12
Monterrico sought assistance from the PNP, a police unit that had a track record of violence. The police handcuffed, hooded and beat protesters, taking them into the mining site where they were detained outside for 2-3 days. 3/12
Cases of #pillage by corporate actors investigated and brought to justice are rare.
Very rare.
Still, TRIAL International in recent years has submitted no less than 4 such criminal cases to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of #Switzerland.
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Very rare.
Still, TRIAL International in recent years has submitted no less than 4 such criminal cases to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of #Switzerland.
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The first complaint concerned the role played by #Argor-Heraeus in refining several tonnes of gold illegally extracted from the #DRC.
The OAG decided in 2015 to close it down.
Not being a civil party, TRIAL was unable to appeal the decision.
trialinternational.org/latest-post/swā¦
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The OAG decided in 2015 to close it down.
Not being a civil party, TRIAL was unable to appeal the decision.
trialinternational.org/latest-post/swā¦
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The second case, filed in 2016, concerns a Swiss businessman, Christoph Huber, currently under (very slow) investigation by the OAG for his role in the #looting of raw materials in the #DRC.
trialinternational.org/latest-post/piā¦
#ConflictMinerals
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#ConflictMinerals
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Thanks to a group of TRIAL donors, all donations between now and Sunday will be doubled! Join the #FightAgainstImpunity and #donate today! #MatchFunding
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Looking for reasons to support TRIAL in its fight against impunity?
Here are a few taken from recents weeks:
1. We briefed the UN #SecurityCouncil on the question of #justice and reconciliation in #Bosnia and Herzegovina (5 Nov.) trialinternational.org/latest-post/trā¦
Here are a few taken from recents weeks:
1. We briefed the UN #SecurityCouncil on the question of #justice and reconciliation in #Bosnia and Herzegovina (5 Nov.) trialinternational.org/latest-post/trā¦
2. Erwin #Sperisen, former chief of police of #Guatemala, will have to serve his 15-year prison sentence for complicity in 7 cases of #extrajudicialexecutions of prisoners. So has decided #Switzerlandās Supreme Court (26 Nov.)
trialinternational.org/latest-post/swā¦
trialinternational.org/latest-post/swā¦
Unfortunately, workers currently arenāt āfree to work for any firm.ā 1 in 5 workers are banned from working for other companies in the same industry by non compete clauses.
Originally intended to protect corporate secrets, now it mostly limits the mobility of service workers.
Originally intended to protect corporate secrets, now it mostly limits the mobility of service workers.
Bernieās Corporate Accountability and Democracy plan will ban non-compete clauses.
It will also protect workers by banning mandatory arbitration clauses & unilateral modification clauses. #corporateaccountability
It will also protect workers by banning mandatory arbitration clauses & unilateral modification clauses. #corporateaccountability
Mandatory arb. clauses are bad for workers across the board, but consider what it means for historically marginalized ppl.
Your job has a pattern of racial/gender discrimination? No class action for you! No criminal liability!
It limits accountability for them at your expense
Your job has a pattern of racial/gender discrimination? No class action for you! No criminal liability!
It limits accountability for them at your expense
New report from @EconomicPolicy and @PopDemoc: by 2024, more than 80% of private sector, non-union workers will be unable to sue their bosses due to forced arbitration clauses. #RipOffClause #EndForceAarbitration on.epi.org/2WMA5yb /1
Thatās right: almost none of us will be able to take our employers to court. How did we get here? Corporations have been scheming for years to shield themselves from accountability when they violate the rights of workers and consumers. /2
In the late 1990ās, a coalition of Wall Street companies strategized to block class actions, one of the only tools working people have to challenge corporate abuses. nytimes.com/2015/11/01/busā¦ /3
