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Title: [PDF] Human Rights in the Mining & Metals Sector. Handling and Resolving Local Level Concerns & Grievances.
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[PDF] Human Rights in the Mining & Metals Sector. Handling and Resolving Local Level Concerns & Grievances.
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International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM)
Dated:
October 2009
...This publication builds upon International Council on Mining and Metals’s overall work to date on ‘business and human rights’...It sets out good practice approaches on a specific...issue in this area: the development of company procedures for handling local level concerns and grievances. The number of documents on this topic has...grown significantly, in part prompted by the importance that John Ruggie has attached to having systematic approaches to dealing with such issues in his “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework...A short core text is supplemented with a handful of relevant case studies...[T]his guide is released as a ‘Pilot Testing’ version...[Also refers to OceanaGold, Anglo-American, Newmont, ExxonMobil, BHP Billitons, Xstrata].
Title: ICMM presents new guidance note on mining and human rights
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ICMM presents new guidance note on mining and human rights
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International Council on Mining and Metals
Dated:
20 Jul 2009
[International Council on Mining and Metals] presents “Human Rights in the Metals and Mining Industry: Overview, Management Approach and Issues”, the first in a line of publications affirming the organization’s commitment to uphold human rights...it reviews management approaches that member companies have applied to dealing with human rights challenges...One of the principles adopted by the Council of CEO’s in 2003 was that members should “uphold fundamental human rights and respect customs, cultures and values.”...The “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework produced by John Ruggie...forms the theoretical basis of the organization’s work on human rights
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[PDF] "Human Rights in the Mining & Metals Industry
Overview, Management
Approach and Issues"
Author:
International Council on Mining and Metals
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Our overall objective here is to provide an overview of the main challenges and dilemmas that companies in the mining and metals sector are often faced with...It also deals with how mining companies can ensure that both employees and communities have access to remedy at the operational level...[discusses "focus" issues- Employment"emphasizing...employee
representation, preventing child and forced labour", Security including "actions of security personnel", Resettlement, Conflict, Small Scale Mining,Corruption and Transparency]
Title: The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Ruggie Pushes Corporate Human Rights Improvement, Harkin-Engel Pushes End to Child Labor in Cocoa
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The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Ruggie Pushes Corporate Human Rights Improvement, Harkin-Engel Pushes End to Child Labor in Cocoa
Author:
Bill Baue, CSRwire
Dated:
17 Jun 2008
Earlier this month...John Ruggie presented his third report to the Human Rights Council. In a significant development, the report sets forth a framework for states protecting against human rights abuses, companies respecting human rights, and victims accessing remedies...Perhaps more significant are the responses to the report coming from all quarters, including business, investors, and activists. The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) welcomed the report...A group of socially responsible investors also hailed the report...One issue addressed in the report, child labor, is the subject of increasing attention of late...For example, the International Cocoa Verification Board (ICVB) has chosen two agencies to verify the validity of certification surveys of child labor and adult forced labor in Ghana and the Ivory Coast...[also refers to Newmont Mining]
Title: ICMM [Intl. Council on Mining & Metals] welcomes Ruggie report
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ICMM [Intl. Council on Mining & Metals] welcomes Ruggie report
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Intl. Council of Mining & Metals
Dated:
12 Jun 2008
The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) welcomes the third report of Professor John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) on business and human rights. ICMM applauds his efforts to bring clarity and consensus to the complex debate around the roles and responsibilities of business with respect to human rights.
Title: [DOC] Statement of John Ruggie regarding third submission of ICMM
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[DOC] Statement of John Ruggie regarding third submission of ICMM
Author:
UN Special Representative on business & human rights John Ruggie
Dated:
14 Jan 2008
The SRSG is grateful to ICMM for their positive submission to the mandate... He is particularly pleased to see ICMM work with the "Protect, Respect, and Remedy" framework the SRSG has been outlining in recent consultations...
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ICMM makes third submission to UN Special Representative on Human Rights
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Intl. Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM)
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ICMM has made a third submission to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) on Human Rights and Business. Each of the recommendations in ICMM’s third submission to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) on Human Rights and Business is accompanied by examples from ICMM member companies and associations. They highlight the importance which ICMM places on further enhancing the effectiveness of voluntary approaches on business and human rights – including both on the part of companies individually and multi-stakeholder initiatives. [full report refers to Anglo American, Rio Tinto, AngloGold Ashanti, Freeport McMoRan, CVRD (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce), Newmont, BHP Billiton, Teck Cominco, Mining Association of Canada, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, Minerals Council of Australia]
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