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.
OCTOBER 2024
Reported Violence against Indigenous Kuria by Mine Police at Barrick Gold’s North Mara Gold Mine during 2023-2024
DECEMBER 2023
Evicted for Gold Profits: Indigenous Kuria forced off land in expansion of Barrick Gold’s North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania
OCTOBER 2022
“He was murdered”: Violence against Kuria high after Barrick takeover of mine
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
APRIL 2018
Review of Barrick Gold / Acacia Mining’s Draft “Community Grievance Process – Standard Operating Procedure” for the North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania
JULY 2017
Anger Boils Over at North Mara Mine – Barrick/Acacia Leave Human Rights Abuses Unaddressed