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Introduction: When it comes to dealing with issues in the international level, ethics becomes more and more difficult to understand as ethics can be interpreted in different ways to different people, and their ethics may change when dealing with issues abroad. Today, many individuals from different parts of the world and from different backgrounds, cultures, environment, etc. have started to do business with each. Globalization has given opportunities for individuals to expand within the foreign markets in order to succeed in the business world. Many different businesses in Canada have taken advantage of this opportunity to expand in order to have access to foreign markets, and Goldcorp Inc. is one of them. Goldcorp Inc. is a Canadian …show more content…

on the human rights violation issue regarding Marlin mine, a human rights assessment was done on the mine to assess the environmental impact the mine had individuals living close to the mine. Unfortunately, when the report was finalized in mid-May of 2010, it “painted a harsh portrait” of Goldcorp Inc. The assessment indicated that Goldcorp did not respect the rights of the indigenous people in Guatemala because the Guatemalan government and the indigenous people were not included within the consultation process when the mine was to be constructed. Therefore Goldcorp Inc. was accused of disrespecting the rights of indigenous people. Guatemala is a member of the ILO 169, the International Labour Organization’s convention, which guarantees the rights to indigenous people. Within the convention, it also states that indigenous people should be consulted of when there are major projects within their area and it should also involve the area’s government. A report from the The assessment, which the company commissioned themselves, was 229 pages long and was conducted over an 18-month period by the On Common Ground Consultants Inc. In the assessment, it also reported that Goldcorp had failed to protect their workers’ rights when employees were being dismissed by the subsidiary of Goldcorp, Montana Explorada de Guatemala, S.A., for attempting to form a union. It goes on to report that the company allows the “climate of intimidation

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