Canadian officials ignored their obligation to support activist detained in 2017 over mining dispute in Peru: report

A report from the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project uses access-to-information records to piece together how embassy and trade commission officials responded when Jennifer Moore of MiningWatch Canada was detained by Peruvian police in April 2017.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, seen here on Nov. 28, launched the Voices at Risk guidelines in 2016, when she was Canada's minister for international trade.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

December 27, 2022

A recent report says the Canadian government failed to follow its own policies when called upon to support a Canadian activist who was detained by Peruvian police and declared a threat to national security because of her work with local communities affected by a Canadian-own...

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