The precedent-setting legal challenge to Canada’s mining industry

A group of Guatemalan women have filed lawsuits alleging they were attacked by personnel linked to a subsidiary then controlled by Vancouver-based Skye Resources Inc. A 2014 report by the Washington-based Council of Hemispheric Affairs estimated that Canadian mining corporations control 50 to 70 percent of the mining industry in Latin America, putting them at the forefront of a sector that has been linked to breaches of Indigenous rights and a disregard for nature reserves. The United Nations has also singled out Canadian mining companies and called on authorities to better regulate the sector.