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10 Nov 2005

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Presentation by Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo American plc, to the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Human Rights and Business’ (John Ruggie) consultation on Human Rights and the Extractive Industries, Geneva

Mark Moody-Stuart on Business and Human Rights

These are my personal views based on about forty years of connection with the extractive industries, living and working in nine different countries and visiting operations in a further twenty five or so countries. In discussing human rights, I certainly recall that today is the tenth anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa in Nigeria, reminding us that this in some cases this is truly a matter of life and death.