On June 18, 2014, several Guatemalan men filed a civil lawsuit in a Vancouver court against Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources Inc. for injuries they suffered… Read more

CCIJ is helping Roy Samathanam seek justice for the torture and imprisonment he suffered in Sri Lanka. We worked with him to file a complaint… Read more

The murder of Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi in the early morning of 31 July 2005 constitutes one of several attacks that have targeted human rights defenders… Read more

In 2014, three Eritrean men filed a civil lawsuit before the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver against Nevsun Resources Limited over the use… Read more

Latest:  Read detailed summaries of the hearing in September 2016. The Chevron case involves a decades-long dispute between members of Ecuadorian communities and the Chevron… Read more

CCIJ is helping Mamadou Seye seek justice for the enforced disappearance of his father, Papa Seye, in Mauritania in 1990. We worked with… Read more

In 2003, photojournalist Zahra (Ziba) Kazemi, an Iranian by birth but a naturalized Canadian citizen, was tortured to death in Iran. She had obtained… Read more

Maher Arar is a Canadian citizen who was forcibly sent to Syria in 2002 as part of the United States’ “extraordinary rendition” program. He was… Read more

In 2005, CCIJ intervened in a case before the Supreme Court of Canada involving a deportation order against Leon Mugesera, a former Rwandan government official… Read more

In the 1990s, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) began protesting the negative effects of oil drilling in Nigeria’s Ogoni region. Read more