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Mobile Billboard Brings Community Voices to Barrick Gold Shareholders
Photo: A mobile billboard projects community messages to Barrick Gold shareholders. Credit: Sarah Palmer SOURCE: MiningWatch Canada, Mining Injustice Solidarity Network TORONTO – Shareholders of Canada’s largest gold mining company were greeted today with strong...
Conflict, Environmental Harm and Human Rights Abuse Allegations – What Barrick Shareholders Need to Know
Photo: Akali Tange Association of Porgera protests against Barrick and pushes for compensation for victims of human rights abuses at the Porgera gold mine. April 13, 2023.Source: MiningWatch Canada OTTAWA – As Barrick Gold presents itself to shareholders in Toronto at...
Barrick Slapped with Third Lawsuit on Same Human Rights Abuses at Tanzanian Mine: ‘Business as Usual’?
(Ottawa) For the third time in under ten years, victims of ongoing police violence at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Gold Mine are seeking legal remedy - this time in Canada. Today, Vancouver-based law firm CFM filed suit in an Ontario court on behalf of...
Lawsuit against Canadian gold miner alleges Tanzanians were killed, injured by police
By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press TORONTO - A group of more than 20 Tanzanians and their family members have filed a lawsuit against Barrick Gold Corp., alleging they or their loved ones were beaten, shot at or killed by police at one of the company's mines in...
Barrick Gold faces Ontario lawsuit for alleged killings and abuses at Tanzanian mine
By Geoffrey York and Niall McGee, The Globe and Mail Two law firms have filed suit against Barrick Gold Corp. in Ontario Superior Court on behalf of 21 Tanzanians who allege that they or their family members were killed, injured or tortured by police...
‘Barrick is responsible for the violence’: New lawsuit filed in Ontario about troubled Tanzania mine
Marks the third lawsuit filed in connection with alleged human rights abuses at Barrick's Tanzanian gold mine By Gabriel Friedman, Financial Post A group of Tanzanian citizens on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. in Ontario’s Superior...
Barrick in Charge: Ongoing Killings of Local Kuria by Mine Police and Forced Evictions at the North Mara Gold Mine
(Ottawa) In September, MiningWatch Canada conducted another human rights investigation at the North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania, owned and operated by Canadian company Barrick Gold. The findings of this investigation are published today in the latest report: “He...
Barrick’s Rhetoric Belies the Lived Reality of Communities at its Mines Around the World
(Ottawa) As Barrick prepares to speak at its Annual General Meeting about the soaring gold price in an unstable world, returns on investment for shareholders, and the value of the company’s global assets, affected communities from Alaska to the Dominican...
Barrick Gold Mines Focus of Conflict Globally
(Ottawa) As Barrick Gold’s CEO Mark Bristow touts the company’s financial gains at its annual shareholder meeting, communities and environments around the world continue to pay the price. In Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, communities oppose Barrick’s...
Barrick Gold AGM Faces Continued Failure on Human Rights
No social licence and no permit extension in Papua New Guinea; legal action, again, on behalf of victims in Tanzania As Barrick Gold executives once again face their shareholders, investors should be asking themselves why this company is continuously embroiled in...