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Article

1 May 2013

Author:
Glynis Board, West Virginia Public Broadcasting (USA)

UN working human rights group visits WV [USA]

A United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights has concluded a visit to communities in West Virginia to explore the human rights impacts of mountaintop removal mining...The UN Working Group met last week with officials from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the West Virginia Coal Association, and also toured Boone County towns of Twilight and Lindytown. The delegation visited the area as part of a targeted effort to assess current initiatives, opportunities and challenges in implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the United States...The group held a press conference today to discuss its preliminary observations from the U.S. visit. It will follow its site visit with a detailed report containing findings and recommendations to be presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in June 2014.