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Transition Minerals Tracker 2025: Asia and the Pacific
Since 2010, the Transition Minerals Tracker has recorded 835 allegations of human rights and environmental abuse linked to the extraction of key minerals needed to power the global energy transition. In the Asia-Pacific region, notable cases of abuse have arisen over the last 14 years. As the world races to meet ambitious climate goals, they are looking to mineral-rich countries in Asia-Pacific to provide the elements needed to power a “fast” transition to renewable energy.
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Transition Minerals Tracker 2025: Africa
Since 2010, the Transition Minerals Tracker has been recording allegations of human rights and environmental abuse linked to the extraction of key minerals needed to power the global energy transition. Nearly 200 allegations were linked to the mining of transition minerals in Africa, accounting for more than 20 per cent of all abuse allegations globally.
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“We were treated as if we were machines”: Migrant workers powering Saudi Arabia’s energy transition
Testimony from 34 migrant workers employed on nine renewable energy projects in Saudi Arabia reveals a litany of alleged human rights abuses. This briefing analyses the public human rights commitments of 16 companies linked to these projects and sets out recommendations for the sector.
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Renewable energy and human rights benchmark 2025
The Renewable Energy and Human Rights Benchmark assesses and scores the human rights policies and practices, as well as low-carbon transition planning efforts, of 35 leading companies across the renewable energy supply chain. This year's analysis reveals renewable energy companies across all categories have made some progress on salient human rights risks for the sector – although crucial gaps remain.
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Videos: Canadian companies in Colombia
Canada’s reputation on the global stage is based on high human rights standards and progressive climate action. Yet in Colombia – which the Canadian government describes as an "attractive market" for industries including mining, defence and security, agriculture, and oil and gas – communities affected by the operations of these industries report a litany of human rights abuses. This documentary series explores the uncomfortable gap between Canada’s image and its impact abroad, asking what happens when profit is prioritised over people.
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Advancing human rights due diligence in Japan: Evidence-based insights and recommendations for NAP revision
This policy note, jointly prepared by the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, offers recommendations for Japan’s revised National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP 2.0).
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By design or by default: the gendered harms of the tech industry
New joint research by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and the World Benchmarking Alliance reveals that some of the world’s most powerful technology companies are falling dangerously short in protecting the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people across their operations, products, and services.
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Accelerated demand: Human rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia’s transition mineral boom – 2025 analysis
Our 2025 analysis of the impacts of transition minerals in Eastern Europe and Central Asia reveals an alarming rise in human rights and environmental abuses associated with the exploration, extraction and processing of these minerals. Compared to the annual average over the previous five years, documented abuses in 2024 have increased by more than threefold.
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Justice in the transition: Litigating corporate abuse in the shift to clean energy for all
This year’s analysis of the cases in the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s Just Transition Litigation Tracking Tool reveals a growing wave of litigation, with 95 cases across the world brought by rightsholders over human rights abuses in projects linked to the global shift to clean energy. These lawsuits are not a rejection of climate action; they are a demand for a truly just transition.
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