Increasingly states with large mining sectors - Australia and Canada among them - are promoting mineral extraction, and providing funding for mining company CSR projects, as a means of promoting positive development outcomes - while communities around the world face grave human rights abuses associated with such projects.
This collaborative effort of CAWG members critiques this shift in development strategy by donor states, in time for the largest mining investment meeting in world - the Mining Indaba in Cape Town. The authors demand states abide by their extra-territorial obligations to regulate – not financial support – mining corporations, and calls for aid to preserved for genuine efforts to realize human rights and empower civil society groups on the ground to hold corporations accountable.
