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"Defenders of the Earth: Global killings of land and environmental defenders in 2016"
Author: Global Witness (United Kingdom)
In 2016, at least 200 land and environmental defenders were murdered – the deadliest year on record. Not only is this trend growing, it’s spreading – killings were dispersed across 24 countries, compared to 16 in 2015. With many killings unreported,...
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- Related companies: Anglo American AngloGold Ashanti Axis Bank BHP Billiton BNDES Coal India (CIL) Energy Transfer Partners Finnfund FMO Glencore Jindal Los Encinos San Miguel Corporation SOCO International South Eastern Coalfields Limited (part of Coal India Limited) Vedanta Resources Yes Bank
India: 2017 Responsible Business Index ranks top 100 listed companies
In an attempt to gauge how Indian firms are coping with the interests of various stakeholders, a collaborative effort of non-profits—Oxfam India, Corporate Responsibility Watch, Praxis and Partners in Change—has put together the second edition of India...
"Outsourcing Development: Lifting the Veil on the World Bank Group’s Lending Through Financial Intermediaries"
In October 2016, Inclusive Development International published a report linking International Finance Corporation projects to human rights and climate change impacts: "Outsourcing Development". As the introduction states: "...The investigation tackl...
So. Africa: Inaugural Southern Africa Permanent People's Tribunal hears testimonies from communities affected by mining and extractive activities
Author: Alternative Information & Development Centre (South Africa)
The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal held the hearing in Manzini, Swaziland, in the southern region of Africa, taking evidence from cases based in Swaziland (two cases), Zimbabwe (two cases), South Africa (four cases), Zambia (one case), and Mozambique (two...
Background paper: India’s Natl. Framework on Business & Human Rights
Author: Surya Deva, for Ethical Trading Initiative
...This paper examines two broad questions: first, whether India needs a BHR framework at the national level to implement the GPs; second, assuming that such a framework is needed, what the content of such a framework should be and what principles...
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- Related companies: Coca-Cola Dow Chemical Enron Jindal Kanan Devan Hills Plantations Company (P) Ltd. Posco Vedanta Resources
The land acquisition law itself needs to be rescued before it can save villages from mining
Author: Raksha Kumar, www.scroll.in
By amending the land acquisition law through an ordinance, the Modi government has made it harder for people in Chhattisgarh's mining areas to fight displacement...“Simultaneous to the changes made in the land acquisition law are the amendments to the...
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India: Report on companies' sustainability practices - an analysis of the top 100 listed companies
Author: Price Waterhouse Coopers Pvt. Ltd.
SEBI’s regulation in 2012 mandating the top 100 listed companies to report on their performance on the Business Responsibility Guidelines through Business Responsibility Reports (BRRs), along with their Annual Reports...The report sets out to document...
- Related companies: ABB ACC Limited (Associated Cement Companies) Aditya Birla Group Asian Paints Bajaj Auto Bharti Airtel Bosch Cairn Energy Canara Bank Cipla Coal India (CIL) Colgate-Palmolive Cummins Exide GAIL (Gas Authority of India Ltd.) GlaxoSmithKline Gujarat Ambuja Cements HDFC Hero Honda Hindalco (part of Aditya Birla Group) Hindustan Unilever ICICI Indian Oil Corporation Infosys Jindal Larsen & Toubro Lupin Mahindra & Mahindra Maruti Suzuki (part of Suzuki) Nestlé NHPC (National Hydroelectric Power Corporation - India) NTPC ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation) Oracle Ranbaxy Laboratories Reliance ADA Reliance Industries Shree Cement Siemens State Bank of India Suzuki Tata Consultancy Services (part of Tata Group) Tata Group Tata Iron and Steel (TISCO) (part of Tata Group) Tata Motors (part of Tata Group) Tata Steel (see Tata Iron and Steel) Titan Industries (joint venture Tata Group & Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation) Wipro Yes Bank Zee Zydus Cadila
Stage set for reforms in coal sector
Author: Shreeja Sen, Ruchira Singh & Aman Malik, Mint
The Supreme Court…scrapped the allocation of all but four of the 218 coal blocks awarded between 1993 and 2010. While the move gives the government an opportunity to make a fresh start and put in place a transparent rules-based regime in the allocation...
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- Related companies: Aditya Birla Group Essar Group Jindal NTPC Reliance Industries Tata Group
Villagers allege use of threats and coercion for land acquisition by Jindal Power Limited, company denies claims
Villagers allege use of threats and coercion at Jindal Power Limited’s open cast coal mine site in Raigarh, India. Villagers also mention adverse health impacts due to discharge of poisonous effluents by the plant. Business & Human Rights Resource...
Villagers oppose Jindal-promoted NSPL public hearing [India]
Author: Press Trust of India
A public hearing organised to give environmental clearance to the O P Jindal Group-promoted Nalwa Steel and Power Limited (NSPL) for expansion of its capacity was opposed by villagers...[who]...alleged the company was utilising water without any...
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