RAID, Bread for All and Fastenopfer critique Glencore over its record on human rights, the environment and relations with communities affected by its operations in the DRC. Read the executive summary below.
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RAID calls on the US authorities to investigate a number of questionable transactions in Africa by Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, a $41bn US hedge fund listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Briefing for Investors and Equity Analysts A Pattern of Abuse: Human Rights at Risk at the North Mara Mine, Tanzania There has been a long history of violence at ABG’s North Mara mine in Tanzania (‘the Mine’), including multiple deaths and injuries caused by Tanzanian police officers who are paid by the company to protect
Bread for All (Switzerland), the Catholic Lenten Fund (Switzerland), Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID, UK) and the Congolese human rights organisation, Centre d’aide juridico-judiciaire (CAJJ), are calling for a full criminal investigation into the violent death of a young man, MUTOMBO KASUYI, on the mining concession of the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC), a subsidiary
Letter to UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office calling for African Barrick Gold to be questioned over human rights incidents at the North Mara Mine, Tanzania.
Outstanding Questions on AIM Memorandum concerning the second evidence session for the BIS Select Committee’s inquiry into the extractive industries sector
The UK Government has set out its strategy (“Good Business: Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights”) for implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2011. The Action Plan is structured around three pillars: the State duty to