Category Archives: Human Rights

Hudbay confronted over its conflicts with indigenous people

A Canadian mining activist confronted Hudbay Mineral’s CEO Alan Hair on the company’s history of violent and repressive conflict with indigenous people during the company’s annual meeting earlier this month in Toronto. Before asking her pointed question, Rachel Small, a … Continue reading

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A murder in Guatemala raises questions of intimidation

The nephew of a plaintiff in a Toronto civil suit against Hudbay Minerals Inc. was beaten to death last month raising questions whether the murder was an attempt to intimidate  Guatemalan Mayan activists in their ongoing civil and criminal cases … Continue reading

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Three Arizona tribes file federal law suit against U.S. Forest Service seeking to block Hudbay’s Rosemont Copper Mine

The Tohono O’odham Nation, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and the Hopi Tribe sued the U.S. Forest Service in U.S. District Court on April 13 challenging the agency’s approval of a plan by Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. to build the $1.9 … Continue reading

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Former Hudbay security chief faces new Guatemala trial for murder and aggravated assault

A Guatemalan appeal court has overturned a not guilty verdict rendered by a judge last April in the murder and aggravated assault trial of former Hudbay Minerals’ security chief Mynor Padilla. Padilla, 53, will now face a second criminal trial … Continue reading

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Hudbay pays Peruvian National Police to provide security for its Constancia mine

Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. has a contract with the Peruvian National Police to provide security services at its Constancia mine in Peru, according to records obtained by a Peruvian human rights group. Ruth Iberra Luque, a representative of the organization … Continue reading

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