This week, Hudbay Minerals must answer to El Estor residents and international community. Gang rape, violent evictions, assassinations in Guatemala among concerns.
WED. JUNE 13TH, 7PM: Speaking event with Klippenstein’s law firm and screening of Steven Schnoor’s film depicting evictions in Guatemala
OISE Room 5170 (252 Bloor Street West)
THURS. JUNE 14TH, 9:30AM: Protest Hudbay Minerals Inc. AGM
First Canadian Place (77 Adelaide Street West)
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Two events this week will highlight the human rights abuses perpetrated in Guatemala by Hudbay Minerals and its subsidiaries and contractors. Communities around Hudbay’s mining site have been speaking out against the forced displacement, assassinations, gang rape, and intimidation that they have experienced as a result of the mine.
Adolfo Ich, a teacher and community leader, was killed on September 27, 2009 by private security guards hired by Hudbay Mineral’s subsidiary in Guatemala. Since 2010, his family has been working with Rights Action and the law firm Klippenstein’s to seek justice and hold Hudbay accountable for not only the death of Adolfo Ich but also the shooting-paralyzing of German Chub Choc, and the gang rape of 11 villagers from the community of Lote 8. That community has suffered several violent evictions as a result of Canadian mining companies’ interests, specifically Hudbay Minerals (current owner of Skye Resources).
A representative of Klippenstein’s will speak on Wed. June 13th about the abuses suffered by the communities and the cases the firm is pursuing in Canada against Hudbay Minerals Inc. On June 14th, concerned citizens will gather to protest Hudbay’s Annual General Meeting and to shed light on the experiences of the communities who cannot be present. Mining Injustice Solidarity Network and other concerned groups acknowledge that while abuses are happening in Guatemala, the decisions that lead to these actions are made in Canada, where over 75% of the world’s mining and exploration companies are headquartered. We ask for an end to voluntary regulation in the mining sector that results in inadequate legal and political structures for the protection of the environment, community rights, as well as safety and security.
Police, military and security forces burn homes during a forced eviction - Photograph by James Rodriguez
Organized by: Mining Injustice Solidarity Network & Rights Action
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