HUMAN RIGHTS

Call to strip Rio of global ranking

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Original article by Victoria Laurie
The Australian – Page: 5 : 9-Jul-20

Rio Tinto is the highest-ranking mining company on the annual Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, which assesses 200 of the world’s largest listed companies in terms of their human rights record. Indigenous and human rights groups have called for Rio Tinto to be removed from the Benchmark in response to its destruction of ancient rock shelters in the Pilbara. Vale was suspended from the Benchmark in 2019 following a dam collapse in Brazil.

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RIO TINTO LIMITED – ASX RIO, CORPORATE HUMAN RIGHTS BENCHMARK, VALE SA

Liberals split over UN rights council

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Original article by Primrose Riordan
The Australian – Page: 2 : 21-Jun-18

Liberal MP Craig Kelly says Australia should join the US in withdrawing from the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, arguing that its members include some of the world’s most repressive regimes. Although Liberal senator Eric Abetz has welcomed the US decision, he says Australia should see how the UNHRC responds before taking any action. Senator James Paterson favours continued membership of the UNHRC, while Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has expressed disappointment with the Trump administration’s decision.

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UNITED NATIONS. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE, UNITED STATES. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, AUSTRALIAN JEWISH ASSOCIATION