Zimbabwe: Court prevents Chinese mining company from …

'ZLHR rescues beleaguered villagers as court stops illegal Chinese mining operations' 26 July 2023. A ZIMBABWEAN court on Wednesday 26 July 2023 stopped Labenmon Investments, a Chinese mining company, from conducting illegal mining operations on ancestral land belonging to some Mutoko villagers in Mashonaland East province, following an outcry by …

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[PDF] Mining, the environment, and human rights in Ghana: …

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 …

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Human Rights in the Mining & Metals Industry …

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?

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[PDF] Impacts of mining on human rights & the environment

[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 ...

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Human Rights Risks for Mining and Manufacturing

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 ...

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A STUDY ON FRAMEWORKS AND POLICIES FOR …

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 ...

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Human Rights

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. […]

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NGO Mining Working Group – An NGO coalition promoting human …

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 …

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Mining and Environmental Human Rights in Papua New …

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 …

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Human Rights and International Mining Disputes

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 ...

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Mining-Environment-Human Rights

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).

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