reports

MAY 2025

 

Reflections on Legal Proceedings in Canada against Barrick Gold Regarding the North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania

Between 2022 and 2024, Indigenous Kuria from villages surrounding the North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania filed cases in Canada against Barrick Gold Corporation for alleged human rights abuses in and around the North Mara mine. MiningWatch Canada attended the hearings in Toronto and has prepared this report where we expand on the legal context for the cases brought against Barrick in Canada and discuss the legal arguments made by counsel for Barrick in the context of international human rights law.

Report available here

OCTOBER 2024

Reported Violence against Indigenous Kuria by Mine Police at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Gold Mine during 2023-2024

Report available here

DECEMBER 2023

Evicted for Gold Profits: Indigenous Kuria forced off land in expansion of Barrick Gold’s North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania

Report available here

OCTOBER 2022

“He was murdered”: Violence against Kuria high after Barrick takeover of mine

Report available here

SEPTEMBER 2018

Inequality of Arms: A summary of concerns raised by victims of violence by private and public mine security at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania regarding the mine’s new Operation-level Grievance Mechanism

Report available here

APRIL 2018

Review of Barrick Gold / Acacia Mining’s Draft “Community Grievance Process – Standard Operating Procedure” for the North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania

Report available here

JULY 2017

Anger Boils Over at North Mara Mine Barrick/Acacia Leave Human Rights Abuses Unaddressed

Report available here