...[Rights & Democracy] says it has found evidence that Canadian companies are endangering the rights of indigenous residents in three major investment projects... [TVI Pacific's mine in the Philippines] has...displaced many families,...hurt the local small-scale miners, damaged a mountain that is considered sacred to the people, and caused pollution that harmed the livelihoods of fishermen and rice farmers, the report said. It said [TVI] has hired a paramilitary security force that has “contributed to militarization of the area.”... The report also criticized [Société Minière du Katanga (Somika)]...in the Congo [whose]...processing operations are located over a water table that supplies drinking water to 70 per cent of the nearest city's population...[T]here is a “major risk” that it could contaminate the water... The report also examined Nortel Networks Corp. and its controversial involvement in the high-altitude Chinese railway to Tibet... It said the project is part of a development system that “contributes to human-rights violations” [in Tibet.] [includes responses from TVI Pacific, Nortel Networks]