Extracting Justice: The Human Rights Impact of Canadian Mining

Join speaker James Yap for the Sir Graham Day Lecture in Ethics, Morality, and the Law.

Canada is home to an estimated 60% of the world's mining companies. They operate in all corners of the world and have acquired for themselves - and their country of origin - a bad global reputation for the serious human rights abuses that often occur in connection with their business activities abroad. Focusing on the Nevsun litigation - where a Canadian court ruled for the first time that a Canadian corporation may be held civilly liable for acts of slavery - this lecture will explore the challenges of holding Canadian mining companies legally accountable for complicity in human rights abuses overseas, and what more can be done to address the problem.