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First Peoples Worldwide � Rape, Sex Trafficking, and the Bottom Line: Corporations’ Complicity in Violence Against Women

6.3.15

First Peoples Worldwide � Rape, Sex Trafficking, and the Bottom Line: Corporations’ Complicity in Violence Against Women: On March 28, 2011, the 11 Q’eqchi rape survivors filed a lawsuit in Ontario’s Superior Court against Hudbay Minerals, the first time a Canadian court is hearing a case against a Canadian mining company for overseas human rights abuses. The company is also facing lawsuits from the El Estor community for shootings in 2009 that left one man dead and another paralyzed, investigations into which are ongoing in Guatemala. Hudbay Minerals has denied all allegations against them, saying they are “without merit”, and has vowed to “vigorously defend itself” against the allegations of rape.


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