With the RMI Report 2020 showing that the large mining companies scored a low average of 19% on human rights-related issues, the latest research encourages mining …
The number of human rights mining complaints filed with an NCP trended upward between 2011 and 2022, peaking at seven complaints in 2020. In both manufacturing and mining sector cases, approximately 30% of all complaints filed were rejected by the respective NCP, which aligns with the rate of rejection across all human rights complaints that we ...
What is the current status of human rights in the mining sector? Ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), data from the RMI Report 2020 shows that the large mining …
The United Nations has formed a group of nearly 100 countries to draw up new guidelines to prevent environmental damage and human rights abuses associated with mining …
IUCN NL partner organisation Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) works with its partners and members in various locations in the Philippines, where Indigenous peoples and local communities are faced with large-scale mining …
How climate change interacts upon human activities necessary for meeting the needs of a society is important to understand. Mining is such an activity, as it provides the fundamental raw materials required in everyday life. However, mining is potentially extremely vulnerable to climate change.
The report also investigates how nickel mining operations have resulted to adverse environmental and human rights impacts in Sulawesi. Specifically in the small island of Kabaena, the report finds that nickel mining companies have illegally cleared forests and did not seek free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) of local communities, many of ...
(Cambridge, MA, October 12, 2016)—South Africa has failed to meet its human rights obligations to address the environmental and health effects of gold mining in and around Johannesburg, the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) said in a new report released today.
MAC and its members are committed to protecting human rights and delivering positive outcomes in the host countries and communities where they operate. In recent years, MAC has undertaken significant actions related to human rights. In 2017, MAC announced a new addition to TSM aimed at preventing child and forced labour in the global mining supply chain. […]
Mining company Glencore has racked up at least 70 allegations since 2010, including accusations of corruption and poor working conditions, according to the nonprofit Business & Human Rights...
Canadian mining companies are far and away the worst offenders in environmental, human rights and other abuses around the world, according to a global study commissioned by an industry association ...
While the global norms meant to guide corporate environmental human rights conducts have steadily improved, there have been limited efforts directed at exploring whether business-related environmental human rights infringements have as a result reduced. To address this gap, this paper examines the extent to which mining companies meet their responsibility to …
Mining-Environment-Human Rights 1. The Mining-Environment-Human Rights thematic group reported through its Working Group (WG) to the first UPR review in March 2010. Issues raised in the report have triggered the UN HRC recommendations 84.16, 84.106, 84.108, 84.109, 84.113 and 84.118 accepted by Government (GoM).
But activists, journalists and scholars have found a relationship between coltan exploitation and large-scale environmental degradation, human rights abuses, violence and death.
"The fight against climate change is a human rights imperative at this point in time, but it should not be seen as a license to just disregard human rights in mining operations," Avan said.
[Presentation given at Mining on Top Conference on applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the environmental & social impacts of mining. Case examples on access to water, right to health, right to food] Both positive and negative human rights impacts can originate from the core operations of both LSM [large-scale ...
A panel of experts convened by the United Nations has issued a set of recommendations and guidelines for governments and mining companies to ensure that human rights, justice and equity are ...
While APMC has reportedly volunteered to stop its mining operations, there is still a need to determine accountabilities for possible human rights violations and abuses committed, as well as assurance of appropriate remedies for the harm done—not only to the people and their community, but as well as to the environment relative to human ...
Human rights transgressions caused by mining in a Mexican context demonstrate the inability of the state to stop the increase in socio-environmental conflicts and its lack of concern towards ...
None of the companies scored higher than 51, with Amnesty researchers identifying the companies' practices of forced evictions to make way for mining, subjecting workers to dangerous conditions, violating Indigenous peoples' rights, and exposing communities to …
Whether transnational corporations should be held accountable for actions which violate human rights is a question which cannot be answered without consideration of new configurations of power that enable corporations to evade regulatory control. 2 Where the state is an effective regulator of transnational corporations, its own laws will be more practically enforced than the …
A panel of experts convened by the United Nations has issued a set of recommendations and guidelines for governments and mining companies to ensure that human rights, justice and equity are...
The Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) together with the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) just published a sector-wide impact assessment (SWIA) on the mining sector (opens new tab), with field research focussed on tin, gold and limestone mining in eight states and regions.. The field research, as well as an extensive review of current laws …
Human rights and mining. The responsible and sustainable development of mines can bring economic empowerment to communities local to the mine, and can contribute to inclusive social development, transparency and the good governance of public revenues from the exploitation of a country's natural resources. Conversely, the negative impacts of ...
Human Rights in the Mining & Metals Industry Overview, Management Approach and Issues 1.1 Why has ICMM produced this guidance? Respect for human rights is a key aspect of sustainable
The NGO Mining Working Group (MWG) is an NGO coalition that, in partnership with our members and affected local communities, advocates at and through the United Nations for human and environmental rights as related to extractive industries.The MWG addresses unjust and unsustainable extractive practices and policies through the lens of the rights of local …
"From child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo to squalid living conditions for workers at South Africa's Marikana mine, the mining industry is tainted with human rights abuses. Mining firms have often caused or contributed to human rights abuses in pursuit of profit while governments have been too weak in regulating them ...
Mining with meaning - Protecting human rights and the environment in the shift to clean energy Date: 29 Oct 2020 Content Type: Report. In this report, Sherpa analyzes how French companies involved in the energy transition identify and prevent human rights and environmental abuses in their mineral supply chains based on their published vigilance plans.
PDF | On Jan 1, 2018, Jalaluddin Jalaluddin published Coal Mining and Human Rights: Initiating The Right To a Good and Healthy Environment as Non-Derogable Right | Find, read and cite all the ...
Levels of respect for human rights in the mining sector Businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights. This responsibility means companies must know their impact, avoid human rights infringements and address any potential or actual impact. Operations of businesses' can have a profound impact on human rights, either positive or ...
In both manufacturing and mining sector cases, approximately 30% of all complaints filed were rejected by the respective NCP, which aligns with the rate of rejection …
The Mutanda copper-cobalt mine, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Source: YouTube . Glencore Plc has the worst human rights record among miners of metals used in renewable energy, the Business ...
Evidence shows that more companies are integrating human rights issues in their public reporting. And it is encouraging to see that human rights are often identified as a "material" issue by …
recommendations to introduce human rights accountability mechanisms for mining and other industries and 4) retribution on human rights defenders, environmental and human rights …
The 110-page ground-breaking report, "Beneath the Green: A critical look at the cost of industrial cobalt mining in the DRC," authored by UK corporate watchdog RAID and DRC-based African Resources Watch, is one …
water management and human rights in mining is drawn from. analysis of corporate policy, sustainability reporting, as well as. industry guidance and regulation, suggesting that the disconnect is.
2 Human Rights in the Mining & Metals IndustryOverview, Management Approach and Issues BACKGROUND & KEY POINTS 1 1.1 Why has ICMM produced this guidance? 1.2 What should reasonably be expected of companies in this area? 1.3 Are there clear distinctions between the roles of government and of companies?
The human rights abuses and environmental degradation in places like Congo do not bode well for the West's transition to sustainable energy, which will stretch the demand for green energy materials.
A new report highlights land rights violations, deforestation and pollution associated with a massive nickel mining and processing project on the Indonesian island of Halmahera.