Take action for Jeremy's murder here. North American organizations are dismayed and deeply troubled by the execution-style murder of 22 year-old Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima, assistant to the director of the Guatemalan Centre for Legal, Environmental and Social Action (CALAS), on Saturday in Guatemala City. A group of Canadian and US legal, environmental and social justice organizations, and solidarity networks publicly express their condolences for the victim’s mother and two

PRESS RELEASE Vancouver/Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal/Guatemala Guatemalans to appeal case against Tahoe Resources in BC court; Reminder that Canada must be open for justice Monday, October 31, 2016 On November 1st, the BC Court of Appeals will revisit a procedural motion in the case of seven Guatemalans who have brought forward a civil suit for battery and negligence against Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources. The suit dates back to the company’s role in a violent attack in A

Originally posted in the Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/10/24/government-not-doing-enough-on-violence-near-canadian-owned-mines-report.html The report, by the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project, documents 15 years of violence and death that happened near Canadian mines in Latin America. German Chub was left a paraplegic after he was shot during a conflict near a Canadian-owned mine in Guatemala. A new report says the Canadian government should