Rights Issues: Government and World Stage

rights issues: The UN is in vogue again, and the government is making efforts to restore Canada's place on the world stage, according to Huffington Post Canada. What hasn't changed yet is how the federal government is handling one of our most pressing human rights issues holding Canadian companies accountable, both here at home and when they operate overseas. Photo Oxfam Canada by Ian Thompson A UN-appointed human rights expert on an official visit to Canada can expect to receive a warmer welcome from the Trudeau government than from its predecessor. The problem is not a small one. The Canada Brand report by Osgoode Hall Law School published in 2016 found that over the past 15 years, Canadian mining operations in Latin America have been associated with 44 deaths, 30 of which were classified as targeted. Mining companies headquartered in Canada have been implicated in human rights violations around the world, some involving egregious abuses like sexual violence, forced displacement and extrajudicial killings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.