1st Edition

Profits, Security, and Human Rights in Developing Countries Global Lessons from Canada’s Extractive Sector in Colombia

Edited By James Rochlin Copyright 2015
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

The extractive sector is a particular area of expertise for Canada and more than half of Canada’s mining assets abroad are located in Latin America, specifically in Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. The Canada-Colombia accord was the first free-trade agreement in the world to include annual Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIA), and also includes a labour side accord where abuse complaints can... Read more

1. Introduction James Rochlin and Gustavo Gallón  2. Foreign Investment, Oil and Human Security: The Case of Pacific Rubiales Energy Corporation in Puerto Gaitán Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez (Dir.), Marco Velásquez, Sebastián Rubiano, and Ana María Muñoz  3. Ethnicity, Episteme and Gold: The Struggle for Human Security in Marmato James Rochlin  4. The Gold Trade and Human Security in Segovia and Remedios Adrián Restrepo Parra, Wilmar Martínez and Juan José Moncada  5. Open Pit Coal Mining in Northern Colombia: Institutional Weakness and the Supremacy of Capital Gustavo Rodríguez Albor, Jairo Agudelo Taborda and Ibelis Blanco Rangel  6. The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement: Imbalances in the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Canadian Investors in Colombia Gus Van Harten  7. Analytical Conclusions Claudia Donoso and James Rochlin

Biography

James Rochlin is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan. He has published widely in the areas of Latin American Politics, Global Theory, and Critical Security.