The sometimes appalling conduct of Canadian mining companies abroad is a woefully under-reported story. There’s even a dearth of images in Canadian photo archives to accompany stories about egregious human rights violations at Canadian-owned and operated mines around the world — a sign that Canada’s news organizations have largely failed to report on some truly shocking allegations and developments.

Nonetheless, investors are increasingly taking notice. Today in The Conversation Canada, Shin Imai at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School and Sarah Colgrove, an adjunct law professor at Ryerson University, explain how investors are shunning mining companies that routinely fail to consult with the Indigenous communities where their mines are operating or openly violate human rights. In short, human rights violations and failures to consult Indigenous communities dramatically affect share prices.

They write: “A growing body of research suggests that investors care about human rights impacts and consultation with Indigenous communities, and consider them important to the value of their investments.”

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