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The Road to Ruin? Electric vehicles and workers’ rights abuses at DR Congo’s industrial cobalt mines

New research reveals dire conditions, discrimination and extremely low pay at industrial cobalt mines, tainting the electric vehicle market

The Road to Ruin? Electric vehicles and workers’ rights abuses at DR Congo’s industrial cobalt mines

La route de la ruine? Les véhicules électriques et les violations des droits des travailleurs dans les mines industrielles de cobalt au Congo

La route de la ruine? Les véhicules électriques et les violations des droits des travailleurs dans les mines industrielles de cobalt au Congo

The Deadly Cost of ‘Ethical’ Diamonds

RAID reveals human rights abuses at Petra Diamonds' Williamson Mine in Tanzania, including shootings, stabbings, beatings, incarceration and fatalities

The Deadly Cost of ‘Ethical’ Diamonds

Glencore's Oil Operations in Chad

RAID speaks to 50 local residents who reported burns and skin lesions after wastewater spill and oil pipe leak near Glencore’s Badila oilfield 

Glencore's Oil Operations in Chad

Congo's Victims of Corruption

RAID and AFREWATCH outline the harm caused by the abrupt closure of the KMT mine and identify 32,000 Congolese residents and 700 former workers who were negatively impacted

Congo's Victims of Corruption

Report: Acacia Mining's Grievance Mechanism and the Denial of Rights

Analytical report on Acacia Mining's private grievance mechanism at its North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania

Report: Acacia Mining's Grievance Mechanism and the Denial of Rights

Bribery in Its Purest Form

Reports on the repeated failure of the UK regulatory authorities over a 10-year period to take action to prevent assets acquired through corrupt means being traded on the London markets.

In September 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (Och-Ziff), one of the largest hedge funds in the world, with conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which regulates the New York stock exchange, also announced that Och-Ziff had agreed to settle civil charges of violating the FCPA. RAID’s report examines the corrupt transactions in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and suspicious payments in Zimbabwe, as detailed by the SEC and DOJ.

Bribery in Its Purest Form

Principles Without Justice

This report, Principles without justice – the corporate takeover of human rights, offers an in-depth critique of company complaints mechanisms as practised by two extractive industry companies Acacia Mining (formerly African Barrick Gold, ABG) operating in Tanzania and Glencore’s subsidiary, the Kamoto Copper Corporation (KCC), in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Both companies have explicitly endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (‘GPs’) and adhere to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (‘VPs’), although only Glencore is a participant in the initiative.  Acacia Mining claims adherence to the VPs by virtue of Barrick Gold (its majority shareholder) being a signatory and member of the Voluntary Principles Plenary.

Principles Without Justice

PR: summary critique of GPs and VPSHR released

Time to rethink company grievance mechanisms

PR: summary critique of GPs and VPSHR released

Ten Years On: still no justcice for Kilwa victims

Account of the Kilwa case, with the most comprehensive available list of victims, compiled by RAID for the UN Business and Human Rights Forum 2014

Ten Years On: still no justcice for Kilwa victims