“Unfortunately, Canadian mining companies have a bad track record in our [Southern] countries, where companies such as Barrick Gold are the source of many conflicts because of the dispossession of lands, destruction of water sources, and the ignoring of international rights (ILO Convention 169, the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, among others), that lead to multiple environmental and social impacts on our communities.
Mining, CIDA partnership in Peru is pacification program, not development
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