'Blatantly failing': Human rights abuses 'widespread' in transition metals mining sector, report warns

Cecilia Keating
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'Blatantly failing': Human rights abuses 'widespread' in transition metals mining sector, report warns

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre accuses miners of in-demand transition minerals of a 'lack of basic respect for human and environmental rights'

The extraction of minerals critical to the net zero transition continues to be linked to a "damning number" of human rights abuses, NGOs have warned this morning. In an update to its Transition Mineral...

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