Supporters of slain mining activist take case against Canada to international body

By The Canadian Press
Wed., June 7, 2023
2 min. read



OTTAWA - Family and supporters of a Mexican activist who was killed after opposing a Canadian company’s mining project are taking their case to an international human rights body.

The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project, a Canadian initiative by volunteer lawyers, is making a complaint to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the family of Mariano Abarca.

The complaint alleges that Canada failed to uphold its international human rights obligations by pressuring Mexican authorities to advance the mining project despite having knowledge about related threats to Abarca’s life.

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After being beaten and threatened with death for leading protests over the mine’s environmental and social effects, Abarca was shot and killed outside his home in November 2009.

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